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They're not, though. Good wordplay requires a great deal of wit, much more than sex or fart jokes. Puns are actually often used as the punch lines for longer-form jokes that require some rehearsal to sell to an audience.
What has happened is that, as a society, we have decided to show appreciation for puns by groaning instead of laughing, and the punster is looking for that groan when they're telling it.
I somewhat agree, good word play does require a great deal of wit. But most puns are low hanging fruit, it's probably less than 1% of puns that have some originality and novel thought about them. (A quick Google search shows that OPs puns are pretty far from original)
However, I appreciate that humour is subjective. And of course I'd expect to be downvoted for moaning about puns in a pun post.
Well, they're like any other joke. People hear them, either like them or don't, and repeat the ones they like. It's not often you get properly original ones nowadays because English has been around for a pretty long time and wordplay has been a big part of it since before the 1600's, and probably longer. Shakespeare is famous for putting puns and innuendo in his plays, for example.