For us in the west, lttp seemed like such a huge upgrade, because very few people here saw any of the evolution steps inbetween like Neutopia. It's a really fascinating to discover the things we missed in that era.
This is also where all the "it was an official act, so im immune" bullshit falls apart. How can defying court oders be an official presidential act? Isn't a president defying court orders the definition of not doing his job?
I think a huge factor in the hype is some I've seen multiple times in recent years. It's the assumption that improvement will be linear. I've seen it first in Musk's hyperloop. People, even engineers who should know better, tried to convince the public that scaling up a proof of concept is possible despite unsolved physical constraints. SpaceX is similar. Being able to land rockets, Musk somehow convinced a lot of people that we are going to land on Mars soon.
And AI is no different. It already ran into real limits in terms of what it is capable of being a stateless processor. Prompt processing and iteration can only gloss over so much, but things like "forget the previous versions of this code" are inherently impossible by design, it can only be appended as a rule, but the old versions will remain in the prompt blob. And that is very very likely never going to change
It's like saying "well, we are getting better and better at jumping, it's only a matter of time until we'll be able to fly"
I always found it funny when I see a censored middle finger on TV in the US. It's like they are drawing more attention to it by censoring it. And everyone knows what's behind the pixelation. It's so pointless.
So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...