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>Nobody will sit to watch two chess programs compete, or analyze their tactics.

I know nothing about chess yet I dare say that I'd doubt this. Surely chess enthusiasts would be interested in analyzing how a superior chess program came out victorious, no?

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Yes you are right, some people do watch chess engines play. TCEC (Top Chess Engine Championship) [1] streams them. Popular chess YouTubers goes over engine games from time to time too.

[1] https://tcec-chess.com/

That's not proof of interest so much as proof of commerce. It could easily be a money-laundering mechanism.

Mostly nobody cares about professional chess. The number of people who are actually interested in today's game and not the drama are a tiny sliver of that. This is actually great because it means we can train and evaluate both without interference from chess players, possibly even building a stable society.

Here [1] is a video made 3 months ago going over an engine vs an engine made by of one of the big YouTubers, which has 1.4m views. Enough proof?

[1]https://youtu.be/Ov7K4W-zAk0?is=6jVBkQpn8xbaA2Tz

People do: https://tcec-chess.com/

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