That is a good point about something I hadn't considered. I was going to disagree with you until the last sentence, which then clicked.

As AI is developed, it is also championed as "closer to real thought" and might someday solve the more general intelligence problem, only for those same experts to later realize that would never be the case and then retroactively proclaim "this was never going to solve general intelligence, but it is still AI".

The history is full of this kind of revisionism, so I agree with you.