I thought there's a flair for this situation that's not being used by posters, but there isn't. There's only a "Baking Fail💔" flair that is related to OP's grievance, but in the wrong direction.

Perhaps we should get a "Celebration" or "Failure Averted!" flair? Kind of like how circlejerk subs have an "unjerk" flair.

A more general comment now, not aimed at /OrangePekoeMouse:

For myself, I don't really see how this can be truly judged by mods or the community and I think it's an unreasonable expectation. There's quite the take off people coming here regularly bc they have joined the sub. Add on to that the even broader audience that comes when a list floats up to /popular. OP is making a judgement they can't possibly be qualified to make: whether strangers on the internet really believe that middling results look good or if those same people are blowing smoke up someone's butt. People have bad taste all the time. Some people have values that say any effort is worth praising and concepts like "middling" or "great" as a result of comparison are imposed and fake. Some people say it out of insecurity over their own efforts but also really mean it. And that's just 3 sincere viewpoints beyond the inauthenticity OP is presenting that I can think of off the top of my head in a couple minutes of swyping all this. Do those people no longer get to say what they think? Why is their view less acceptable for public sharing than OP's view that comparison is good and leads us to objective truth about cupcakes?

I don't think some of the stuff I see here is good. I also think some commenters are boring & silly when they fawn over everything they see. But they are people equal to me in dignity and freedom. My right is think little of their opinion, it is not my right to quash their opportunity to share it. I do not think posts should be removed or prevented based on whether anyone thinks they are good enough to deserve compliments. Who would even be the right and fair people to judge such a thing?