> This is not an elephant in the room, this is so obvious.

Maybe they grew up in an environment where the phrase "elephant in the room" meant a situation where people enter a room, notice an elephant there, and immediately scream "Jesus Christ there's a goddamn elephant!"

Usually the elephant in a room is something very evident about which no one wants to discuss about

But everyone is discussing how AI will have ads, so it’s not an elephant in the room.