I mean, today a lot of people are anti-genAi just because they had enough of it making everything worse (including technology), while also being an environmental disaster, and yet there are always assholes to accuse them of being "anti-technology".

It's more than just income protection. The Luddites were against the way the manufacturing capital was being used to effectively create wage slavery. They weren't against technology, they were against a specific use case that undermined worker rights and freedoms, not just incomes. The end result of their suppression was nearly a century of worker abuse and exploitation that ultimately produced the violent conflicts with the labour movement at the beginning of the 20th century.

It's currently looking like we're headed back into an era where the owner class is going to be leveraging government to mass-murder their own employees to maintain their dominion over the masses.

One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before

But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism

There's a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately... The displaced workers aren't the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits

It's both.