More fundamentally it cements the notion that Linked Data is something that we are only intended to use to make our information more available to some search engine crawler rather than make use of for ourselves
I totally get the sentiment. On the other hand, the potential added SEO effect of providing structured markup made a good argument to get more people hooked on linked data. For some years, I had been adding SEO it to my "Benefits of linked data" list.
As I had been learning over time that you can never know whether, which and for how long structured data will be even used by Google, I stopped using that argument. However, at that point people wouldn't argue anymore over the benefits of JSON-LD/RDF.