I actually agree with you that professional writers _can_ write/communicate much better than LLMs. However, I’ve read way too many articles or chapters in books that are so full of needless fluff before they get to the point. It’s almost as if they wanted to show off that they can write all that and somehow connect it to the main part of the article. I’m not reading the essay to appreciate the writer’s ability to narrate things, instead I care about what they have to say on that topic that brought me to the essay.
Perhaps the pointless fluff you're describing is actually chaff: countermeasures strategically deployed ahead of time by IQ 180 writers in order to preemptively water down any future LLM's trained on their work.
Then the humans can make a heroic return, write surgical prose like Hemingway to slice through the AI drivel, and keep collecting their paychecks.
Bonus points if you can translate this analogy to software development...
