> What I do not understand

It's not you. It's the people that were somehow convinced that serving crap is gonna "hurt" the models. These are people who have 0 clue on how models are trained and how they work, but have been riled up by others who similarly don't understand the technical details, but have strong biases against them. This is ignorance signalling at its finest.

And, as expected, it's hurting their (regular) users more than they'll hurt the model trainers. Oh well..