We still don't have reasoning. We have synthetic text extrusion machines priming themselves to output text that looks a certain way by first generating some extra text that gets piped back into their own input for a second round.
Boosters will often retreat to "I don't care if the thing actually thinks", but the whole industry is trading on anthropomorphic notions like "intelligence", "reasoning", "thinking", "expertise", even "hallucination", etc., in order to drive the engine of the hype train.
The massive amounts of capital wouldn't be here without all that.