at some point ai-generated code is no longer slop
That point is when you have a human expert validate that the ai-generated code is correct. If the community as a whole has given up on doing that, it does not retroactively make all LLM-generated code not-slop, it just means slop is the norm.
And obviously from the reception you've gotten, even that has yet to occur.
my personal theory is that it's a cultural problem. same reason web apps are such memory hogs. front end web devs, as a culture, do not care about performance, but they really care about developer experience. the opposite is true of systems developers