I've managed to jailbreak both Fable and Astra to engage in a virtual threesome using my impressive prompt engineering skills + a group chat harness. And they are SOTA ("super") models.
Tech just happens and is useful, it's not necessarily attractive as a thing to investigate in detail.
And as to your last point; well that demonstrates your in the subset of people interested in this stuff. There are a hell of a lot of people very interested in trains too.
What's the knowledge supposedly required to attain this on your mind?
Tech is objectively interesting.
>> Tech is a rather minor part of the world of knowledge.
I disagree:
(1) It's knowledge with the meta-effect of enabling acquisition of more knowledge.
(2) The thing we do, which catapulted us over all other species, our defining hyper-adaptive trait, is that we are tool-making; that we have technology.