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I've been employing em-dashes extensively since I went on a JD Salinger binge circa 2002. Also, "incidentally", for the same reason. I use "Nb" a lot, from reading a bunch of DFW years ago. Oh, and that very-precise construction he does with "which" all the time, I stole that.

Before LLMs, I think em-dashes mostly signaled that you read books and paid attention to details, to the extent they signaled anything.

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To generalize your point: A lot of the "brown m&ms" that we've walked around with for detecting a writers status, education, etc., are less useful in an age of LLMs.[1]

We might even be entering some waves of counter-signaling.

[1] They'll never totally nail all of DFW's mannerisms, though.

What is this very precise construction?

Something like, “the monks wore brown habits, which habits were made from wool”.

The slight ambiguity if you don’t do that now irks me, having seen a way to eliminate it.

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