>I'm not interested in how difficult this is for a LLM. This is not the question.

And neither was that my point. It is a complex problen, full stop. Again, your own inability to look past your personal abstractions ("just do the thing, it's literally one step dude") is what makes it feel simple. You ever do that "instruct someone to make coffee" exercise when you started out? What you're doing is saying "just make the coffee", refusing to decompose the problen any further, and then complaining that the other person is bad at following instructions.