Right, it's either bad writing, or an LLM that's been trained on bad writing.

I'm giving the author the benefit of the doubt and assuming the latter.

Did people used to do it 5 times every 10 sentences?

Bad writers do worse

I didn't ask about other worse things, I asked about this specific bad thing.

Since you dodged the question, I guess your real answer is "no, people never did this" and therefore "yes, this is AI slop"

in human conversation "seen worse than that", "do worse than that" usually means the thing in question is not a concern in given context. "worse" obviously includes the thing. Are you AI?