I don't mind that as much. Scratching an itch with AI is fine, but if you want to publish it to the world I sort of expect some effort to show why you did that and why I should care.

I don’t see it as so different. Knuth was playing with bleeding edge tools to see how they could make beautiful documents, I’m sure peers told him plenty of times trying to run vector graphics through a PDP-10 wasn’t “carrying the tradition of…”

Knuth today is busy writing “Shock! Shock! Claude Opus is great at math” papers, not poo-pooing other with strange appeals to “tradition”