Why 'seemingly'? Why is that not 'actual' groundbreaking progress? Because mapping problems to pre-existing algorithms is bread and butter of computer science

Why 'seemingly'? Why is that not 'actual' groundbreaking progress? Because mapping problems to pre-existing algorithms is bread and butter of computer science and software engineering. To be groundbreaking a work needs to change our understanding of the underlying issues. In a lot of popularized cases that does not happen.