Why can't anyone just run it through one of the "make this not appear so clearly LLM-generated" obfuscation utilities open sourced on GitHub, or something similar just with prompts.

The level of phoning in the complete lack of any work beyond the absolute bare minimum is the most frustrating aspect to me.

I would say, because not everyone cares as deeply as you do.

If it's readable and aesthetic, it is perfectly serviceable for the purpose of reading a post.

Consider that you probably didn't have such an intense response to WIX templates or substack articles, so most of what's going on is actually your feelings about AI taking primacy.

I appreciate the obviousness of it. Isn't it a good thing if the lack of effort jumps out in seconds?

This is good! Taste still remains a differentiator so far in our tokenmaxxing era.

I don't at all get the whole "making websites must feel like a 996 shift in a Nike sweatshop"

Software dev has never been a hard job

It's been so paint by numbers for years now for me it's incredibly boring mind numbing dead end toil

In the spirit of not speedrunning towards the dead internet theory, then what we need is a slop-detector that detects things that have been run through a script to "make this obviously not look like slop", in a recursive looping battle royale until the heat death of the universe.