Comment by amarant
I feel like this is a trend in online writing lately, and it's leading me to more and more withdraw from online discourse. Whenever someone introduces something that greatly helps with something, there are a bunch of people who start pointing out that, while the new solution is waay better than anything before it, it's not 100% perfect, and therefore "it's benefits are exaggerated" or similar. If the new thing is in the public eye for long enough, those "exaggerated" complaints start morphing into "it's a scam", and shortly after that the new solution to yesterday's problem is the villain that must be stopped.
It's really confusing, and quite tiring.
A similar thing happened when the media learned about Ozempic (semaglutide) a while ago. Multiple progressive outlets, especially the Guardian, published articles stating the drug was overhyped, playing down its value, citing overweight women from "fat studies" academia (basically activists against the stigma of being overweight saying that being overweight itself is not the problem), emphasizing all its downsides etc. Of course they couldn't stop the hype, because the drug actually works.
Yet another example: In early 2020, for a few weeks many news sites claimed that face masks don't help against coronavirus transmission because there was "no evidence" that they did. Of course this wasn't true (the evidence was just limited, and the protection wasn't optimal), and they changed their tone quickly once multiple non-Asian countries started to introduce mask mandates for visiting public places.