Some people do - though likely not as many as discuss Love Island. I think the tech community in particular (with both the awareness and the means) has a duty

Some people do - though likely not as many as discuss Love Island. I think the tech community in particular (with both the awareness and the means) has a duty to the public to make clear what is going on to those less tuned in. So far, it has failed in that to a rather astonishing degree. Probably for exactly the reasons yourself and the OP describe.