In my experience, the people who love watching/participating debates either

1) did debate in school and just love the exercise

2) Are new to an idea and so every debate is educational to them or

3) dumb enough to not realize that debate is a form of entertainment.

Debate bros (who aren’t doing the debates, but watching them) after a certain point transition from being clearly #2 into likely #3

I don’t like debates either because I’m much too agreeable for them and you learn way more from having a written, published dialogue, conducted to reach common understanding (yet being firm when the person is wrong, reasoning poorly, etc, which I’d argue most “collegial dialogues” via podcast don’t do the former two).

A lot of disagreements on philosophical issues are basically a dialogue tree and it’s a waste of time to debate them, starting at square one, if you’ve studied them longer than a couple months. Skip the dialogue tree, go straight to the obscure reasoning informing the disagreement!