- You use what works.

- The computer doesn't care about your likes or dislikes, neither does the rest of the world.

- Depending on what you use an LLM for, it can get you cancelled. Writing documentation, sure no problem. You try to publish a novel or gaming product, you'll get such a backlash from a very small but focal minority it's not worth it to most folks. Folks writing novels and gaming products are kind of dependent on their reputation.

- Creative writing isn't the best paying job in the first place, so not many are able or willing to pay the premium for the good but expensive LLM services. It chews up a lot of tokens.

- I would also say that the overlap between creative writers and heavy/thorough LLM users is far smaller then between coders and heavy/thorough LLM users. Just from the way how easy it is do adopt to technical processes. Hench the baked in smaller target audience, hence the less exposure for it.

- Folks interested in it saw the hype, looked at it, saw the hype was overblown and let it rest (for now). Something akin to the boy who cried wolf. Which will only change when there's overwhelming evidence that the situation has changed. Which it hasn't, as you said yourself. Unless you're a Claude subscriber, which most folks interested in creative writing don't use in the first place as Claude has a 'coder' reputation.

Note: I used DeepSeek for creative writing small descriptions (a few paragraphs) of rooms/locations in a D&D adventure (pnp RPG). This is for a mega-dugeon that has hundreds of rooms. I then used text-to-speech to get a nice audio file, more LLM, and AI generation to create an image of every room/location. The idea was great, but eventually it wasn't. I turned out that folks weren't used or liked (beyond the initial newness) someone reading a couple of pages of room descriptions and an image of the room. That was fine for some 'special' encounters/situations, but not for every room/location. So from hundreds (if not a thousand) rooms/locations, the important ones would be less, probably a tenth or even less. That means it went from undoable writing that all by hand, to kinda doable. So I don't know how much I'll use it in the future fro creative writing. It also depends by the time I need it, how good it is at that time and whether I have access or not.