Five years ago, I would have said the following:

"If someone produces an AI that you give a sequence and it tells you the protein conformation, I'd be extremely impressed".

Sure there are many more things to solve in this space; but that doesn't take away that this is an impressive achievement and does unlock quite a few things (including making more tractable the problem you just brought up). I'm excited to see what DeepMind works on now and what the new state of the world will be just five years from now.