Neither Great British Bake Off or Love Island are necessarily better or worse than the other.
Bake Off and Love Island have proven to be the two shows capable not only of surviving a general reality TV fatigue that’s set in, but of thriving in spite of it.
On Love Island you must reduce another contestant to tears, thereby to attain enough notoriety to eke out a career on ITV2 panel shows, while on Bake Off, the possibility of escaping a return to mundane reality through future TV fame rests on your character, honour, and support of your rivals.
On Bake Off, the only gaslighting happening is on the brushed chrome hobs.