I agree with you, but I think the people going OTT are right too. Clearly they aren’t the type of writers who can knock out this prompt. They’re blaming their inability on the prompts/letter when it’s mostly them, but this is a textbook case of a bad match. They definitely shouldn’t treat this/similar letters because they probably will inject something(/miss something) that’ll lead to wank.

The right author for this letter will treat it if they exist. The right treat recip for these coalies will reveal themselves if they exist. The wrong kind of author nopeing out is an “everybody wins” situation.