Yes. Embarrassing cringe, whether or not it is noted.
But this is a text-only forum and text (to a degree, all digital content) has become compromised. Intent and message is not attributable to real life experience or effort. For the moment I have accepted the additional overhead.
As with most, I have a habit of estimating the validity of expertise in comments, and experiential biases, but that is becoming untenable.
Perhaps there will soon be transformer features that produce prompts adequate to the task of reproducing the thought behind each thread, so their actual value, informational complexity, humor, and salience, may be compared?
Though many obviously human commentors are actually inferior to answers from “let me chatgpt that for you.”
I have had healthy suspicions for a while now.