DEV's Unfiltered Slop Era?!

Recently, many meta discussions mock and condemn content trends on DEV an everywhere else. I already regret recently writing about online community demise and why DEV is different (at least a little bit, I hope) , as the little bit seems to get smaller. DEV's setting to hide tags, isn't working well anymore, if it ever did. Or it does, but only as a negative following priority. When there is too much spam, slop and fad shitposting, there's not much left to prioritize against. My recommendations, sidebar, trends, discussions, and, not much of a surprise, the latest recent posts feed is full of crap, although I have already put #codingwithai, #claudecode, #cryptocurrency and #ai and several other hype hashtags on my hiding list. This is how DEV typically presents itself to me recently when I open the front page: AI and trope titles. The trends have changed. No more listicles, no more emoji overload, instead, five out of ten posts contain an em dash character, that long hyphen, hard to fi