You expect people to read every single excretion, which can be generated faster than I can read,just to find the rare gem that might exist?

The problem is that in the past it took multiple times more effort and hours to write something than it took to read. That served two purposes:

1. Lazy people just looking for an audience were effectively gatekept from drowning the world with their every vapid thought.

2. Because supply was many times slower than consumption it was viable to give most articles a chance: the author could not drown me in a deluge even if they wanted to.

Having the criteria now that the author should spend at least as much effort creating the piece as they expect the reader expend reading it is a damn useful bar: instead of reading 1000 AI articles just to find the one good one, I can simply read 10 human authored articles and be certain that 9 of them have something worthwhile.

No, because I'm not going to spend a bunch of my time fact-checking obvious AI slop.