> Now LLMs use that pretty well (even though stuffing everything into an LLM is getting old, and as this article points out, in any specific application they tend to get bested by something like XGBoost with very simple models)

You can't blame the users for that though, for instance, OpenAI's ChatGPT uses 'Ask Anything' as their home page prompt. Zero specialization, expert at anything. And people totally believe it.