I don't know, what was stopping us from solving world hunger and housing before LLMs? There's always some fresh new way for assholes to make life difficult for all of us, for the benefit of the wealthy few. I don't really see what LLMs have to do with that, other than being in vogue at the moment among the grifter class. It's like seeing a pyramid scheme and deciding that the solution is to ban pyramids. The focus should be on the actual malicious behavior, not whatever trinket they're using to disguise it nowadays.