Saying an article is of inferior quality just because editing was AI-assisted is like saying a book is lower quality just because it was printed rather than written by hand

You are exactly right! People do not find the writing obnoxious, they are backwards technophobes getting brought down by their superstitions.

AI assisted is a stretch. And that analogy isn't even close to being relevant

No? One affects the actual text and the other doesn’t.

Not just that, I think a lot of people are going to waste their time losing the battle (and make no mistake, they will lose) fighting against AI writing without ever asking themselves what makes writing good in the first place.

There’s good AI writing and bad organic writing. But it’s easier to point out a few LLM-isms than to actually identify the problems with text.

Rather interesting than clanker slop defenders downplay the clanker aspect and highlight the human by calling it "ai-assisted", which defeats their entire point.

I hope you do some introspection and start consciously recognizing that the human input and the clanker slop is just debasing it.