This whole comparison is weird. The internet opened doors of communication between people who were very distant from each other. It enabled new methods of commerce and it made it easier for people to research and purchase product. Anyone interested in a particular subject could find other people interested in that same area and learn from them, increasing their knowledge. Ad-hoc organizations were much easier.

These are all things that the majority of people wanted. I understand that software developers find many benefits from using LLMs and I encourage us to put that to the side for the moment. When we look at the rest of the places where LLMs are being put to use, how excited are the majority of people?

I'd argue that people, in the larger sense, are nowhere near as excited about LLMs as they were about the internet.

Many people were extremely skeptical of the internet in the early 90s. You can find old clips of news shows basically mocking the idea.