These are very good points, even goes over the things I personally thought LLMs might be actually suited for.

I want to stay the tiniest speck of optimistic that we can at least get something good out of this all, but understand that it's all idealism based on little to even maybe nothing.

Though maybe it's more "Can all this suffering at least have a silver lining?" Line of thinking dominating my subconscious as a burnt out jaded 30somethin'.