At the same time, Yesterday's Enterprise needs some context. It doesn't work quite as well in a vacuum.
Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn't exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.
Plus it's also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don't have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
At the same time, a lot of places aren't going to let scientists test on something closer to humans without something clearly showing a reason for it. The ethics board would wonder why they didn't try it on mice first, and wouldn't approve anything else.
That they found an effect in mice would be good justification to move up a step. If there was no effect, then that would be the end of that.
Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it's meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.
The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its "death" is worrying, especially when it's one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.
The website would also have to display to users at the end of the day. It's a similar problem as trying to solve media piracy. Worst comes to it, the crawlers could read the page like a person would.
They do have blood, as any ER doc could tell you.
However, they can also breathe in a manner of speaking. Enough that it's proposed as a possible method to keep someone alive if their lungs don't work.