It’s fine if you do not want to engage with the person‘s work, but source of revenue is just one component to evaluate if someone is grifting

From the article "A more common defense is to say, just in general, people attack Zitron because of Y (usually his style), but they never address his points."

The article "engages with Zitron's work"; the post you responded to merely extended the discussion to speculate on why Zitron might be producing it.

(btw, for the record, I'm an AI-hype skeptic and _also_ an AI-head-in-sand skeptic; as far as I can tell, both sides are full of malarkey.)