Hmm... this sounds a lot like the old RISC vs CISC argument all over again. RISC won because simplicity scales better and you can always define complex instructions in terms of simple ones. So while I would relish experiencing the timeline in which our computerized chums bootstrap into sentience through the judicious application of carefully selected and highly nuanced words, it's playing out the other way: LLMs doing a lot of 'thinking' using a small curated set of simple and orthogonal concepts.