People aren't anti-AI because of model performance. They're anti-AI because LLMs are being shoved into absolutely everything.
So yes, this is also about Copilot, but not in the way you think it is.
There's multiple reasons. An older family member told me she dislikes AI because she's worried it will give her wrong information or make stuff up.
The hallucination issue put a big dent in AI's reputation for non-technical older people who do not take kindly to being lied to by a machine.
I live in the Mac world. LLMs aren't shoved into absolutely everything. I do not have experience with Windows.