I feel like it's more because the detractors are very loudly against it and the promoters are very loudly exaggerating the capabilities. Meanwhile, as a bystander who is realistic and is actually using it, you have moments where it's absolutely magnificent and insanely useful and other moments where it kinda sucks, which leads to the somewhat reluctant conclusion that:

> The productivity gains from LLMs are real, but not in the "replace humans" direction.

Meanwhile the people who are explicitly on a side either say that there are no productivity gains or that nobody will have jobs in 6 months.