Just to really drive the point home though on why this is bad faith, I do think it would be one thing if the sysmed were ignorant about created systems.
If you are an outsider to a community and judging it from the outside, you might not be aware of everything that happens within the community. You might not be aware of its views.
For example, in the tulpamancy community, we have a term called "possession." When somebody outside of the community hears that, they would probably first assume that possession was something spiritual. They might also assume that it's another word for switching. In reality, what we call possession is usually an experience where one headmate, generally the tulpa, takes control of the body or part of the body without fully switching in to front.
You would be completely forgiven for not knowing that if you were outside of the community. I can definitely see how that term would be confusing.
Likewise, if you were completely unfamiliar with the endogenic community and genuinely did not realize that created systems are supported by the entire endogenic community, and you weren't aware of practices like tulpamancy/willomancy that involve creating headmates, you could definitely be forgiven for being ignorant.
From your point of view, in that specific scenario where you didn't know better, it would be true that this sounds like traumatizing children.
The reason this is bad faith though is because, while there are a lot of areas where the sysmed community may be ignorant about the endogenic community, this isn't one of them! I mean, there is the entire anti-willoverse flooding the anti-endo tags that by its very nature acknowledges willogenic systems.
So if I'm to say that I want a future with more systems, the anti-endo community knows that this doesn't mean to traumatize children from our perspective.
For all the things they are legitimately ignorant on, they are not that ignorant!
So whenever this line comes up... It's just bad faith. It is a bad faith argument that requires the anti-endo to actively play dumb and pretend they don't understand something they very much understand!
Also, I do want to clarify that more systems is part of it, but not necessarily the primary goal as the anon implied. It's part of the cascade. Normalizing created systems in the world makes it safer to spread practices for creating systems. Then more people who would want to create systems can do so. Then there are more created systems to help further normalize plurality.
The more plural systems there are, the more power we have as a community. The easier it is to reach that accepting society where one day every system who feels comfortable doing so can be out as plural, to their friends and their families and their jobs and their schools! And where plural systems are a large enough consumer demographic where major corporations will build in accommodations for systems. And where we are a large enough voting demographic that we start to see bills passing specifically to protect plural rights.
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