i kind of wonder if in hindsight, not thinking in this pattern (pass math to a solver, etc.) was an oversight by... OpenAI? is that who/what is responsible for

i kind of wonder if in hindsight, not thinking in this pattern (pass math to a solver, etc.) was an oversight by... OpenAI? is that who/what is responsible for widespread popularity of LLMs? asking ChatGPT says LLMs got popular when GPT-2 was released by OpenAI in 2019