To each their own, I suppose. I personally enjoyed the style, and it definitely pre-dates LLMs. For example:
> You want to know the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper. Food is cheaper! Clothes are cheaper. Steel is cheaper. Cars are cheaper. Phone service is cheaper. You feel me building a rhythm here? That's because I'm a speech writer - I know how to make a point. It lowers prices, it raises income. You see what I did with 'lowers' and 'raises' there? It's called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites, and now you end with the one that's not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars. Heh, and that's it.
Were they actually broken, as in violated? I don't remember them being broken in any of the stories - I thought the whole point was that even while intact, the subtleties and interpretations of the 3 Laws could/would lead to unintended and unexpected emergent behaviors.