This is like complaining if someone used Unity at a game making hackathon. “They didn’t really bill anything they just configured an existing solution!”. At the core hacking hackathons are about what you deliver not the effort put into it. It’s crazy how people want to turn it into a purity question. People feel threatened because AI has removed a barrier for those whiners not as good at programming as they see themselves. But hackathons where never won by the rules of people who go “I am going to build my own game engine because using existing tools and libraries feels like cheating!”

Ah yes higher fidelity, external stimulus + human response tuples to feed the ad revenue machine