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> fetishize human workers and read more like activist pieces arguing against tech.

Agreed. The writing style, including adjective/adverb use, is clearly intended to convey an emotional tone of disgust and displeasure.

I'd love to give these people a chance to review a car from the 1900s or 1910s. They'd undoubtedly walk away convinced that the newfangled 'automobile' was a heap of rubbish destined for the dump.

(Of course the successes we have today are built on top of endless heaps of rubbish and a few good ideas.)