You refer to a word that was used in the previous posts, but your rant has nothing to do with the posts.
The perceived value of a game is lowered if you include ai, where there was none before. But this has nothing to do with effort. It has to do with how people perceive ai. Claiming it is because of effort, weakens the argument.
And I do not agree with the price of indie games being lowered by f2p and p2w games. Those type of games are not indie games to begin with. It is companies, often rather big companies, that release different types of freemium games. Games that rely on microtransactions. The typical indie game developer does not have that business model.
Furthermore, we are on Itch here. There are practically no microtransaction games on the platform.
A typical indie game is priced more like $ 10-25 in contrast to the $ 70-80 of a AAA title. But that's on a publishing platform that does not accept any self published work. Like Itch does. The typical price for games on Itch is pay what you want. If they make money at all.
And please do not insult people. We (the people commenting, including you) like to post in the forum. That is self evident. And topics about ai are interesting, because right now ai touches about every aspect of daily life and even games. It is constantly in the news. Of course people will have opinions and talk about it.
That you get even confronted with it in your hobby of playing indie games is one of the many reasons that people do not like ai and consider a game with ai in it as less valuable than hand made games.