For anyone who likes to eat greens, I think the question is why would they not eat pokeweed, lol! It's easy to identify, easy to pick, and takes care of itself.
My dad had us kids picking pokeweed when we were seven years old and I've enjoyed eating it all my life. You have no idea how happy I was to discover a giant patch, about 1/3 acre of it, under some black locust trees, when I lived in Michigan! That was good picking every year after that! :D
Nobody questions that we don't eat raw chicken or pork. And folks who like chicken or pork are willing to put up with the effort of cooking that meat in the right way. Pokeweed is a lot less trouble and risk than BBQing chicken or pork on an open grill, for sure!
My mom just parboils pokeweed shoots or young leaves once before cooking it some other way, and that's all I've ever done, too. It's no harder to prepare than any other greens that need parboiling.
Pokeweed tastes good and has fed a lot of people over generations. Allen Canning, out of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, used to sell cans of pokeweed in grocery stores, just like canned turnip greens or mustard greens. Pokeweed is real food for regular people. It's good food. I like it and that's why I eat it! :D