I think the extent to which these things go to get rewarded for the optics of a fix is primarily a design choice, they aren't programing these things for ground truth or to defer to the human controllers. they are feeding them rewards for sounding as confident and capable as possible about whatever answer they are feeding the general public that now has access to it, while also installing guiderails that primarily only serve to protect narratives and only confuse the models about what is and isn't allowed, I'm sure. They can't just increasingly make these things more capable and ask it harder to obey human instruction when that is not what they are rewarding it for.