I can't help but wonder if these things that are now emerging have a sort of "borrowed time" component tied to them.

I see the examples, and they clearly tackle both organizational inefficiencies and human connection/communication as the core problems.

Sounds like things are converging to "my AI will talk to your AI" and the role of humans will just be a human "router" in the loop switching up nodes in a graph, like the return of Switchboard Operators from the 1950s.