I feel in some ways current LLMs are making technology more arcane. Which is why people who have the time are having a blast figuring out all the secret incantations that get the LLM to give you what you want.
Yeah, there's an important gap between engaging visions of casting cool magic versus (boring) practical streamlining and abstracting-away.
To illustrate the difference, I'm going to recycle a rant I've often given about VR aficionados:
Today, I don't virtually fold a virtual paper to put it in a virtual envelope to virtually lick a virtual stamp with my virtual tongue before virtually walking down the virtual block to the virtual post office... I simply click "Send" in my email client!
Similarly, it's engaging to think of a future of AI-Pokemon trainers--"PikaGPT, I choose you! Assume we can win because of friendship!"--but I don't think things will actually succeed in that direction because most of the cool stuff is also cruft.