Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used.

That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still relies on human labor because the ROI of redesigning production lines didn't make sense.

These humanoid robots would cost $10-100k to make and would require costly maintenance for them to do the job people in poor countries do for a dollar. I don't say we won't come to it eventually, but not in near future

More realistically it seems that llms in several years could help dramatically decrease costs of automation and make it available for more industries

That's the dream.

It's easier to redesign the work to be robot-friendly than to deploy a humanoid robot and have it actually work.