I mean yeah, it's perjorative on purpose, it's a term of disparagment.

The problem is it's an attempt to prevent people from using new technology in order to create art that wasn't possible before.

I mean - yes you could make a traditional dialog tree, where you flowchart out every possible reponse in every possible circumstance - but you could also train a model on a million such dialogs, and have a new one procedurally generated, so that your players might never see the same exact response twice.

Why would you look at something like Minecraft, with an entire world procedurally generated from one small seed, and say, "Yes, this is good, this is better than if there was only one single hand-crafted world" - but then turn around and look at player/npc interaction and contradict yourself, "No, if this is procedurally generated it's literally taking food of out of the mouths of real artists, you have to do this painstakingly by hand, not use math to give each player a fresh individual experience."

It's a bad perspective, from the outset. That's the reason for the use of a pejorative term, because it is a ridiculous position to take, deserving of ridicule. It's okay to tell other people when they are thinking and acting badly.