> the technology in its current state still isn't fit for purpose.

This is a broad statement that assumes we agree on the purpose.

For my purpose, which is software development, the technology has reached a level that is entirely adequate.

Meanwhile, sports trivia represents a stress test of the model's memorized world knowledge. It could work really well if you give the model a tool to look up factual information in a structured database. But this is exactly what I meant above; using the technology in a suboptimal way is a human problem, not a model problem.