I don't think the efforts that are being expended now to make v0, PoC systems that leverage these newer, more powerful tools is "pointless" - if anything it just helps all participants gauge what is useful, what isn't.
If you want to rely on optimism that AGI is "here" or "around the corner" then sure, go for it... but there's a lot to do in this new paradigm
Stable Diffusion is a good example. Some straight up better models, or breaking variants of SD, have come out, but the sheer amount of tooling and augmentations clamped onto Stable Diffusion has kept it dominant.
Llama is another. The intertia and tooling has made MPT and Falcon, and all other non Llama architectures, basically irrelevant.
Are you certain this is going go happen? Especially in such a short timeframe.