Cream Cheese Recipes... Why?

*rant inbound*

Why is it that so many of these slow cooker recipes I see online use cream cheese? Not even a little cream cheese but a whole BLOCK of cream cheese? Are these AI generated engagement farming recipes or something?

I haven't found one yet where cream cheese didn't turn it from a 10/10 to a 2/10. Is it just a way to bulk the meal? Or thicken the sauce? I think this whole Cream Cheese thing is putting a bad name on slow cooking in general. Am I missing something?

Please slow cookers of Reddit, put me out of my misery.