I agree with you in the sense that I think many problems don't require general intelligence once you have a solution. However, to come to those solutions it too

I agree with you in the sense that I think many problems don't require general intelligence once you have a solution. However, to come to those solutions it took decades or centuries of intelligent humans working on those problems. The potential benefit of AGI isn't in automating the problems we already know how to solve (although it might help refine our solutions). It's in accelerating progress in domains where there are unsolved problems. Sometimes we get hung up on comparing AI to humans. I wouldn't want an AI that does math and physics in the same way that humans do. Our brains aren't very good at those things. I'm more interested in the potential for AI to find new, more effective ways of working in these areas.