I'm not bothered by the implication, I just think it's incorrect. Let's talk details. Gobekli Tepe has 2 relevant cultural layers. Layer III is the older layer

I'm not bothered by the implication, I just think it's incorrect. Let's talk details. Gobekli Tepe has 2 relevant cultural layers. Layer III is the older layer. It corresponds to fairly early dates in the PPNA and is associated with the larger T-stone enclosures. These dates correspond with similar structures at nearby Karahan Tepe, but we don't have many other excavations at this level in the immediate vicinity within the rest of the Tas Tepeler complex. Most of those correspond with the younger Layer II (PPNB) levels of Gobekli Tepe, but investigation of the area is slow and difficult. A general rule of the Tas Tepeler complex is that older stones are bigger and better carved. Karahan's oldest stones seem to be missing, so Gobekli Tepe's are the largest and most finely decorated of the finished stones we have left. Unfinished stones exist at both sites. If we head a little bit east from Tas Tepeler, there's another site called Kortik Tepe whose oldest layers correspond to GT Layer III. It shares the same round enclosures we see on the outskirts of GT (and most other anatolian/levant sites from this period). More closely related to GT is Jerf El Ahmar just over the border in Syria. The architectural layers of JEA slightly precede GT and share some of the same animal motifs and styles. Basically the same story applies to Tell Qaramel as well. We also have sites significantly earlier than GT like Mureybet. Gobekli Tepe is an important, early site, but it's not unique or isolated. It's clearly part of a much larger record of transition from the epipaleolithic to the larger neolithic and shares a lot of similarities with contemporaneous sites.