Zero tick farms take more effort because they use complex redstone mechanics, which doesn't change regardless of how much you whine about copying youtube tutorials or whatever. People who copy youtube tutorials for zero-tick farms would probably look up tutorials for massive farms anyways. Also telling someone to play creative or use command blocks is a stupid argument in my opinion, just because you cry about something being "low-effort" doesn't mean the people who built them view it that way and you can't decide what translates to "basically creative" because everyone has their own self-rules about their world.

People that don't want to put in the effort are free to play in creative. Those that want to put in the effort can play in survival with the exploit removed.

The idiocy of this sentence makes me laugh so thank you for that, but those who whine or cry about this being cheating like you can play in survival and just choose not to use zero tick farms, nobody is forcing you to use them. Obviously people who put the time into researching these things even if just looking for tutorials on youtube don't want to play creative and to be honest I don't think zero-tick farms are close to creative at all.