Love these kinds of discussions. Ilk I would see as more derogatory than negative .. and there is a difference ,, my mum used to ‘write’ off kids with long hair .. and since I was one of them .. would be bucketed accordingly ..
look at you all, sitting around, playing guitars, you’d think that you and your ilk would find a bit of time to get a haircut.
To be fair to mum .. she wasn’t serious … she ‘got it’ … part of her humour. But ilk is a word I still use.