to me it doesn't appear particularly against or in favour of. Seemingly, LLMs don't avoid completely some of the mistakes that were already being made. Just as with any technology, the questions should be: by how much the two errors differ? Does the cost justify this margin?
Maybe hit-piece was a strong word; but I do think it's saying this happened _because_ of AI when to me it's been an issue for a long time. ESPN was always pretty egregious when it came to penny-pinching on content and ignoring less popular sports. Ask ice hockey fans how they feel about ESPN.