I think the stranger thing is that people spend tens of hours doing analysis like this to hit an inevitably-expiring hype cycle that will give us a definitive answer shortly.
It's fun! Also it's an interesting commentary on where the AI industry is as a whole.
Don't you think the forensics is fun?! This is exactly the sort of thing i would've expected hn to be broadly interesting to hn. It's a complicated technology and people are poking it and learning things