>> So any exclamation of "it was just using common sense", is missing the forrest for the trees.

I don't know why you say this, I didn't say anything about common sense.

However, you mention CYC. That's a system that is perfectly capable of common sense reasoning and very much like an LLM in many ways. And that should be no surprise: LLMs are giant Expert Systems trained on a human knowledge-base, i.e. the web. OpenAI basically managed to achieve what Doug Lenat was trying to achieve except they did it with machine learning over massive data and compute instead of painstaking manual coding, but it's the same kind of system in the end.