I agree with your first statement to the point of disagreeing with your second. i.e. even the magic stuff is just incremental progress that people were not payi

I agree with your first statement to the point of disagreeing with your second. i.e. even the magic stuff is just incremental progress that people were not paying attention to. (Self driving cars have been wowing people since the 90s, object recognition just got incrementally better every year etc)