Stockfish level 1 can be beaten by a novice playing their 4th or 5th game ever. Also on Lichess there are other bots you can play against, for example the maia series which is an LC0 bot with a neural network trained on Lichess games of a particular rating level. Maia feels much more like a real person than any bot based on stockfish.
Hmm I see, so there are other bots on lichess but they're set up as real players with a bot tag and you play them by challenging them directly. That seems like terrible UX when there's a whole separate menu to set up pve games and no way for a newcomer to learn that...
Sure stockfish level 1 is very beatable, but I do sometimes like sealclubbing super low rated bots so I don't have to think at all when playing and still win, for which the chess.com bots are very neat :P
Yes I agree it would be better and more discoverable if you had a list you could select from when you click the "Play With Computer" button. Maybe part of the reason that they don't is I don't think Lichess themselves actually host any of those bots, there are other people doing that who register it as a bot and it uses the Lichess API.
https://lichess.org/blog/X9PUixUAANCqFRSh/introducing-maia-a...