IMO it supports the framing that it's all just a "make document longer" problem, where our human brains are primed for a kind of illusion, where we perceive/infer a mind because, traditionally, that's been the only thing that makes such fitting language.

To an extent. Even though they're clearly improving*, they also definitely look better than they actually are.

* this time last year they couldn't write compilable source code for a compiler for a toy language, I know because I tried