Coming back from some time in Europe it's imposible to unsee how good we could have it.
There's a perfect highway near me begging to have no speed limit. Straight, flat, no major cities.
But knowing how things would go someone would try to break the sound barrier in a vehicle that was not up for it and die. Then a ton of knee jerk legislation and regulation would make things worse for everyone.
It seems like everyone wants to get on board and try it in case it takes off.
If it works they want to be the first to get really good at it and if it doesn't the normal search engines are still there to fall back on.
At the moment (for LLM's) it feels like the 3DTV hype. A lot of cool technologies that were expensive and ultimately not worth it for a lot of people. Maybe that will change as time goes on.