It's because the messaging for what the point of these things is supposed to be is all over the place. Ask 10 different people and you'll get 10 different answers:

- A superintelligence that will usher in an age of human enlightenment

- A superintelligence that will usher in an age of human enslavement

- A really cool way to rake in trillion of rich VC/investor money by promising you're building a superintelligence that will usher in an age of human en[slave/lighten]ment

- A transformer model for predicting output tokens given a series of input tokens, informed primarily by reddit, stack overflow, and 6000 years of classical literature.

- A replacement for white collar labor. Start now or join the permanent underclass.

- A convenient fuzzy-find tool also capable of some probably-correct code generation.

- The ultimate customizable text RPG experience (you can pick if G stand for game or...)

And so on.

So, some people see a new model and check for how close humanity is to enslavement. Some people check to see if it got better at fixing broken unit tests.

What's amazing is that all of these are true at once. If you allow for some significant slack in what "superintelligence" means.