As long as people are not willing to acknowledge that we're not blank slates, but posses vast intelligence inherently, and that even the simplest life forms are infinitely more intelligent than LLMs, there won't be progress.
It sure seems like we have a lot of inherent knowledge, but by the book we're little more than the product of an instruction set that is our DNA and there's no explanation that includes inherited knowledge in that DNA.
I think the harder thing we need to acknowledge is that we understand much less than we think we know. Concepts like inherent, or collective, knowledge would all roll down hill from that.
But at some point I hope there's breakthrough from any entirely different paradigm.