that was always like this, long before the slop. sometimes the primary goal is to see you obeying and all other goals of your contragent become temporaly secondary.
Yes, this existed in the past. It didn't come in the form of a long winded essay full of jarring phrases that you have to decode. Also, you used to be able to go ask what a weird sentence or phrase means. Now, the human often has no idea and because Super Intelligence wrote it, assumes you're the fool for not understanding circuitous windy prose.