In general, the stock market is in a somewhat weird place because most people in the US who have some money just don't have anything else to do with it. It's not productive to keep it in savings or treasuries, we don't invest in friends' businesses because we don't have friends, real estate is too expensive, we don't collect art or antiques because that's for old people... so YOLO in the stock market it is.
So yeah, I don't think it's wrong to criticize the Anthropic IPO as nearly impossible to justify by anything other than vague hopes and dreams. But that doesn't mean it won't make you money.