That quote proves nothing, except the judge was unwilling to take financial hardship or special circumstances into account for your challenge. Which is appropriate, because the law as written does not allow for that. (Infractions like traffic violations are generally fixed penalties.)

If you had wanted to challenge the validity of the ticket and the judge said he didn't care about the facts, that would have been a different thing altogether.

He’s pretty replaceable by an election.

Those lawyers have a different concept of equity, justice, fairness, etc. from yours. It doesn't mean they don't embrace those concepts.

An AI simply doesn't have any of those concepts, and moreover, is incapable of understanding those concepts. We can barely get AI to understand natural language--squishy abstracts like these are several developmental revolutions away.