I suspect improvements will happen pretty quickly, with companies adapting based on looking qualitatively at user behavior, and users figuring out the evolving

I suspect improvements will happen pretty quickly, with companies adapting based on looking qualitatively at user behavior, and users figuring out the evolving interfaces. (Maybe even users rapidly learning to express themselves better and more concisely, as a more general skill. Or maybe not: maybe tools like LLMs will teach "bad" habits, like just spamming tokens at a gist of vague intent, and not caring much about the quality, or doing it in a rapid refining loop, without pausing to think and articulate clearly.) Possible precedent: Very early in Google history (it might've still been at Stanford?) a famous HCI person came by my office, and I had Google on my screen. On a tangent, he started editorializing (with the irritation of someone who cares), on how their affordance is just a text box, and people don't know what to type there. My thought at the time (as a mere student) was that the Web search UI was already familiar (Google's was only a bit more all-in on the text box than previously; they mostly just dispensed with the conventional noise on the page), and users and Google would both figure it out. And both did (Google, especially, with smarter responses, based on what they'd learned of intent and information over time). That worked out pretty well for everyone, for a long time.