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> don't require the personal discipline of caloric deficit

This reminds of a of Reddit thread I saw on r/cholesterol where a similar sentiment was expressed. Several cardiologists weighed in with comments to the effect that "personal discipline" has been tried for the last 50 years or so and has utterly failed to arrest heart disease and that, yes, GLP-1s are a miracle drug.

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Yes, but the obvious is also worth noting that the nature of those statements is necessarily heavily biased.

Cardiologists are either looking at the broader population or the individuals more likely to lack that "discipline". The majority of people are healthy and have no problems maintaining their health.

Healthy people are not healthy because of a rigorous discipline that unhealthy people are missing, though

Yes, exactly. I'd argue that healthy people are healthy because they have an accurate perspective of reality. Discipline is irrelevant.

> he majority of people are healthy and have no problems maintaining their health.

3 out of 4 people are overweight or obese in the US.

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