I was there on the first wave of the cloud boom (2012-ish), it's biggest pushers got really angry that we weren't up to give up our computers for "sleek, slim, and elegant" devices that would make wires "obsolete" at least in the home, so we can finally live in a sci-fi movie. They literally wanted us to use "browser app" DAWs that would do it's computing on the cloud, then they realized many of us would like to record music, run live effects, etc.
My stepmother was a technophobe. She read articles about school shootings in the US, and thought if I got addicted to video games like Quake, I'll be buying a machine gun from the black market, then end up as a murderer. Yes, she also had a moral panic about drug use, all while she was a borderline alcoholic. The farce in it was that while I wasn't allowed to play any Quake games, there was no harm in Unreal games, which arguably are better. The tragedy in it was that she tried her best to steer me away from computers, giving me some disadvantage in college, also she lied to the doctors about my first seizure to make it seem like it was due to the computer, which lead to the doctors not doing tests besides EEG and strobe lights. Once social media rolled out, she somewhat changed her mind on the subject, though she was still ignorant enough to think "software developer" and "CNC programmer" are the same, and almost got me a job at a local factory (she feared that if I lived on Budapest for a bit longer, I'd get some lung disease, because big city equals bad air).
"But optical discs are an old technology, everyone uses SSDs! Tape drives are even older technology! We need to SSD everything! SSD good! Oh no, why is that external SSD I haven't powered up for five years and kept important file on it for fast access suddenly died? It was supposed to be the optical CDs that flake off and oxidize in a year or two!"
Someone who's more versed with techbro and TESCREAL lore: Does the spiral ring anything to you? I suspect some intentional manipulation from the AI vendors.
Have seen multiple ones going back to Windows after years of Linux usage, usually those who saw Linux as not a tool, but a "hobby OS" to tinker with. The moment stuff became "way too easy", they left. (Also they're usually bigots, and didn't like the "trans coder" stereotype.)
Some sloppers now ask the bots to draw them stick men figures, because drawing them by hand is like 10 millennium old technology, and it needs to be replaced ASAP.
Just use them regardless. A lot of sloppers realized they can ask the slop making machines to leave them out. I even seen stuff when they added random typos to fool some people.
I was there on the first wave of the cloud boom (2012-ish), it's biggest pushers got really angry that we weren't up to give up our computers for "sleek, slim, and elegant" devices that would make wires "obsolete" at least in the home, so we can finally live in a sci-fi movie. They literally wanted us to use "browser app" DAWs that would do it's computing on the cloud, then they realized many of us would like to record music, run live effects, etc.