> In fact if we're being honest, there is some weird unprompted bitterness in your response
Politely, I suggest that prefacing a claim about a stranger's emotions by saying that the claim is "fact" and "honest" is presumptuous.
But I do think you're right about the "friction [being] part of the joy". I think a better version of my comment is that enjoying those frictions isn't completely straightforward, and the temptations of a frictionless (and maybe subpar) alternative make those frictions less enjoyable still, as simonbw's comment observed.
Yeah I think we basically agree.
And yet, I can't leave well enough alone. I want to clarify that I wasn't assuming anything about your emotions. I was being even ruder. I was assuming underlying psychological motivations.
Though, to be fair, I was trying to diagnose a trend, not accuse you individually of anything. There seems to be a lot of resentment directed towards artists that bothers me. It predates the AI boom, but it's been supercharged. People seem gleeful about artists being taken down a peg by AI. It's hard not to read into that. Again, to be clear, as a broader trend and not reflective of you as a person, who like you said, I don't know at all.