This absolutely seems to be the way things are going. We keep hearing about how 'AI' models have done these amazing things and learn they were specially trained

This absolutely seems to be the way things are going. We keep hearing about how 'AI' models have done these amazing things and learn they were specially trained models. Most news reports don't even get into if it was an LLM or ML. Then business leaders think they can just pay for a subscription to an all encompassing LLM model and get the same results. It's just an evolution of the long standing tradition of tech being pushed from the top down because the sales guys impressed the C-suites.