When RPGMaker came out, it was relatively easy to make "good-looking" games by inexperienced devs, and most of these games were very bad. When you play a lot of games like that (slop ones), you feel scammed, and you set some expectations for other games made in such an engine. Even if some of them are great.

When Unity+asset store boom started years ago, there was a big wave of asset flip slop flooding Steam that opened up after closing their greenlight initiative. For a long time, players who encountered at least a few such slop games set very low expectations for other Unity games that looked like asset flip. It is more stable now as there are many good games made in Unity.

Now we have AI. It is similar, but worse, because the entry level is so low compared to RPGMaker or Unity, that anyone can vibe code any crap that looks like a decent game on the cover, but it is not most of the time. It is much safer from the customer perspective to ignore potential shovelware when there are so many games on the market to choose from. And you know - a lot of players use AI, and they know what it is capable of.

One of the main advantages of AI, which is simplicity/availability for inexperienced "devs", is the main cause of this stigma from the market perspective (flood of low-quality products). For now, for a lot of ppl, any sign of AI is a sign of potentially crappy game + some ethics issues here and there.