The problem is that you’ve identified two distinct and non-overlapping sets of people as “everyone”. Everyone who was applauding 3.5 when it came out were indu

The problem is that you’ve identified two distinct and non-overlapping sets of people as “everyone”. Everyone who was applauding 3.5 when it came out were industry hype people. Even the critical voices were industry hype people, paid to assume the AI is powerful and write about the possible negative consequences of that assumption. Now we’ve all gotten familiar with 3.5, and we’ve come to understand its limitations, so the public knows it’s not a “godlike” AI. Luckily there’s a fresh new model, not technically different from the earlier one but it cost more money to build. The hype group can start again, citing the publicly known limitations of 3.5. But in 6 months we’ll understand what’s wrong with it, and the public will be talking about the limitations, just in time for 4.5.