It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.
When confronted with data that people preferred AI writing to human writing, your reaction is to make something up about the participants? Wild.
Even if I accept that people just want to read garbage and they wouldn’t know “good” writing if they saw it, so what? How does that affect anything we’re discussing?