Absolutely not. Makes about as much sense as judging a car based on how good an airplane it makes.
I disagree. If GPT-7 can draw the Mona Lisa in MS Paint via computer use, this would be interesting.
That it isn't the most efficient way to achieve the same end result is irrelevant.
Have you considered that the single most impressive breakthrough of LLMs as a technology is their ability to generalize beyond what they were explicitly trained on? Great analogy, pal, but LLMs aren't cars.