Same reason spam emails have terrible spelling and grammar. If they looked nice they would have intrinsic value as an art piece, but by looking hideous it weeds out anyone who isn't just blinded by the promise of easy money.
It was wild at the time, but it's still so wild that these are just quasi-random assemblies of parts. Like this doesn't even have the pretense of being art. Just amazing.
The art part is how utterly absurd the entire situation is and how incredulous literally everyone else is about it when you attempt to describe them and why they have any value whatsoever.
That's not how slurp juices work. You have to use three slurp juices on an already premium ape to upgrade. slurp juices cannot be used to upgrade a basic ape or create a new ape.
Wait, did they get all the NFT owner's permission to post all these apes for free, or did they have to abandon the whole concept of the NFT to get their warning out? Funny how the libertarians always have to abandon their principles when the real world happens.
It would sound ridiculous to people living a decade ago that others would pay thousands of dollars for electronic funny money to buy a juice to fuse jpegs of apes together, which they also bought with said funny money. It's just so ridiculous and convoluted and yet it got as far as it did thanks in part to a decade of loose monetary policy.