It's not my type of game - my type of game is "stuff somebody actually cared about".
Calling your AI slop anything but AI slop ignores the work you refused to do and instead outsourced to the codestealing machine.
This game is exactly “stuff somebody actually cared about.” A lot of time went into building and improving it piece by piece.
AI was used as a tool to speed up development, not to magically make a finished game. Using modern tools doesn’t erase the work behind a project.