> I do feel like the world now prefers short form content over long.

There is plently of long form content that upvoted on HN. I think the difference is when people feel like it is short form content with padding. AI is good as creating noise, so you have more words without having more to say.

Hence the criticism.

I'm starting to deal with "AI written requirements". They think it is so much better because it has more words, but it's just longer to read without adding anything meaningful. People don't like feeling like they've waisted their time on something that could have been a 140 char tweet.