"... such a different approach where you have to be specific about what you want and which options are open" --- back to where we started ...

Which few to none seem to have understood why, and they do not incorporate, composing their requests with implied information any AI must guess what the hell this request is talking about. Look for and replace implied information with explicit information (that does not have to be detailed, just the correct non-casual language loaded with implied context.)

Not sure on that, maybe the options to choose from will be generated and curated. Same as we do with tagging datasets for images. Might be wildly successful for real world decisions.