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Yes, it's a vacuous truth, which is why I object to its negation being offered as a reasonable statement.
Let's rephrase: excellence pornography is terrible at what it claims to do, but is excellent at what it is intended to do: get people to buy lots of it without ultimately reducing the market for itself.
Take a look at what happened once more: you objected to your own misinterpretation of the original statement with its correct interpretation.