Comment by Balgair

There's a saying in DnD:

"Bad DnD is worse than no DnD"

I'll agree. I've had bad groups and, wow, yeah. I'd rather have just doom scrolled my phone for 4 hours.

So, an AIDnD is wonky now, but it's better than bad DnD (at least with some futzing about that I have done myself).

To really reach here: I think you're placing value on the thing due to the effort involved. That's kind of an old school Marxist way of assigning prices to goods. I'm trying to point out that the value isn't that way for everyone. The 'new' market way of assigning prices is 'whatever someone will pay for it'. And in that very tortured analogy, that means that AIDnD is just as valid if someone likes it enough to do it. The background effort isn't part of the determination of value, necessarily.