I agree the criticism is poor; it’s often very lazy. There are currently a lot of dog-brain “wrap a LLM around it” products, which are worthy of scorn. Much of the lazy criticism is pointing at such products and therefore writing off the whole endeavor.

But that doesn’t necessarily reflect the potential of the underlying technology, which is developing rapidly. Websites were goofy and pointless until Amazon came around (or Yahoo or whatever you prefer).

I guess potential isn’t very exciting or interesting on its own.