This could apply if we looked at questions in vacuum - someone had a conversation and was judging the models based on that. But some of us just use it for work and get good results daily. "Intelligent" is irrelevant; it's "useful". It doesn't matter what feelings I have about it if it saves me 2h of typing from time to time.

To me, as just another kinda old (I’m 49) swe, the biggest benefit of using an LLM tool is it saves a shit ton of typing. I know what I want and I know when it’s right, just saving me from typing it all out is worth $20 bucks a month.