The New Yorker has a whole style guide. Most people aren't writing "née" or "reëlected" very often but the New Yorker keeps those formats and even has a custom typeface.

Yes em-dashes are real but aside from a few NY-based magazines with real editors, writers aren't actually using them very much. I'm a bit sad because I like using them and now I think twice before doing so in case it is misinterpreted as an AI signature.

I think GP was talking about the phrasing itself, not the dash. I actually didn't notice the em dash itself when reading it and agreeing.

It has nothing to do with the em dash, you AI-dweeb. The entire construction is pure LLM slop. Go touch some AI-generated grass.