Negative emotions are good for the evolutionary niche they developed for.
But when your fight-or-flight response kicks in during an exam, it doesn't help you do the exam, but makes it even harder. To be able to function in the society we've built for ourselves, it's necessary to be able to control our natural negative emotions without bottling them up entirely.
I think there's definitely truth to this. Since the west de-industrialised and now largely deals in services, labour isn't really viewed as production of things of value, but just something you do to get a salary. People are utterly alienated from their work and increasingly care less about the quality of the outcome or the society-wide impacts of changing labour relations.
I don't think many people are against the existence of LLM-based AI in general, just the way it's being pushed currently.
In the hands of highly experienced and skilled people it can be very valuable - the issue is that it generally isn't. Personally I think Linus has demonstrated that he's more than capable of using it intelligently and responsibly.
Very large sections of the workforce are no longer adequately trained in their field. This was not the case before AI. They need to be weaned off gradually while providing proper training, like a recovering addict.
People have surrendered their critical thinking skills. Truth is, AI disappearing overnight really would be disastrous, because a huge portion of humanity is utterly addicted to it and incompetent without it.
Did you know that glass is technically a liquid?