its a consequence fitting of a benign action, yes.
Singing terribly gets you no applause. Benign action, distasteful, but it harms no one.
The counter argument would be to say:
Regardless of quality of content, quality of interaction, effort, merit, the outcome should be the same.
That sounds like communism to me.
No matter how bad someone sings, they should still get applauded.
The difference is obvious to me. But, people conveniently conflate the two because it seems to align with the cognitive bias.
Entitlement
Is psychological cancer. We are owed absolutely nothing by absolutely no one.