I don't understand this sentiment. This whole thread is quite positive towards the findings. What we have is a societal verification problem where work has become hard to evaluate and verify, so everyone is being extra careful with their judgements.
People… don’t actually care about what you do, when you succeed. They care about how you do it. You have to be seen to be sweating, struggling, toiling, generally having a terrible time of it - otherwise what you produce is worthless.
Why? Identity. Protection of self from an arbitrary and unfair universe. The internal narrative of “I worked very hard so I deserve this”.
Things which threaten that narrative - be it a child prodigy or a machine prodigy - are very upsetting for people, as they attack a core element of the tale they tell themselves that allows them to survive in this world. That I am valuable, because what I do has value derived from struggle.
At least in academia and tech... the struggle is part of the job, or at least it should be. Basically pre-AI you could be relatively certain that the author(s) went through failure modes and edge cases and weeded them out. This time, not.