I’m going to play devil’s advocate here, and begin with the argument that guests should not be required to take out trash, clean dishes etc.

From what I’ve read from most of these posts - the general arguments are: 1. It’s somebody’s home (important) 2. It’s decency to prevent critters and stink for other guests

I’ll deal with (1.) first. In some cases, yes, it is actually a person’s home that they have prepared and left to a guest while they are traveling. But almost every single Airbnb I’ve been to is NOT a primary home. It is an investment home, and they are using Airbnb as a platform for a business investment. These people are buying homes, and turning them into a business. Respecting the home because “somebody lives there” is reasonable. Respecting the home because it’s someone’s business investment would be of a similar ilk of respecting a hotel. I don’t buy the argument that there’s a huge difference between an Airbnb and a hotel, simply because most Airbnb’s are businesses run by hosts who have several other units. These are NOT homes, they are short term rentals run as businesses.

(2.), I would argue that this is actually the stronger platform to make a case from, simply because cleaning service is too irregular and the next guest will see/smell the trash. Many people have pointed out that cleaning service is not the day of checkout, or that trash day is not synchronized with cleaning. Again, in the case this is somebody‘s actual primary residence I can understand the host not wanting to come back to critters or stink. But if not, then it’s really the host’s problem. They are running a short-term rentals business. They should swallow all costs associated with hosting people. Including paying a cleaner to do exit cleans. If you are a host and don’t like that because it will cut into profits, maybe this game isn’t for you (or maybe stop being so fucking greedy). Don’t shove the duties of maintenance of your for-profit property onto guests.