Most written media is mid-wit slop, because there’s a literacy gate just to participate at all. If you can’t clear it, you’re not in anyone’s view, and if you can you’re funneled into a narrow band of “readable” output.

So the people who can barely read are aspirants hoping for the day they can finally understand the slop. Meanwhile, the mid-wits who are the actual target audience treat the pap like the ceiling. It’s all they can grok, and they get offended the moment you suggest they stop accepting spoon-feeding and look past it to something more complex and accurate.

So for those reasons slop is about all there is.