I think it's a question of how one chooses to go about discovering music. I stopped using Spotify over a year ago and have returned to almost exclusively listening to WFMU, a freeform radio station based in Jersey City. All the DJ's love music and almost all of the are volunteers. This means there's no economic incentive to try to pander to some kind of lowest common denominator. I also rely on a close circle of friends with whom I share a similar musical interest.
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I think the sort of people who listen to AI music don't really do the sort of "discovering music" you are doing. I don't think it is an interest of theirs. And I don't even think they are interested in radio shows like the thing you are describing where it is curated by people who are interested in music and discovering music and whatnot. I think it is a completely different relationship to music.
I suspect it's the same way you relate to something you don't really think or care about, like the design of your gas bill. Imagine you could flick a switch and your gass bill came up in silly /cute / whimsical designs. You might flic the switchz in a disinteredted sort of way. Oh look my gas bill is now in times new Roman.
Something like this lol.
It really is just background noise. Like you wouldn't expect a 5hr white noise recording to fall asleep to, to be a painstakingly made product. It's just this.
This is my guess.