I see what you're saying, but I don't really think understanding how they work is the problem. We do understand how they work. You can go read the many papers that have been published as the technology has been developed. It is not mysterious. We don't need to understand the "clever algorithm", we already understand that. The sense of mystery is because the results of the algorithm are non deterministic, and because the number of parameters that determine the outcome is so large that it appears to exhibit emergent behavior.

I guess I agree with your general premise that tools we use should not be treated as magic. But I don't think this is a problem to be solved, it's possible to learn how these things work, and people should definitely do that.