I'm not missing the middle ground. I am criticising that there is no middle ground in this fake discussion manufactured to keep engagement going.

Every single time someone makes a nuanced argument that is not matching one of the two dogmatic extremes (so exactly that Linus Torvalds is doing here, just –Linus being Linus– not very diplomatically phrased) the same kind of people start screaming about the end of the world (see again: this very thread where idiots express their condolences for Linus finally going insane by not denouncing AI alongside those praising the fact that he finally has seen the light an embraces AI as our saviour).