Golden age as in, "this is as good as it gets", rather than "it will be better in the future".

Or it could be more like the golden age of search engines. It's hard to tell which way it will go because LLMs are a new technology. Some people see only its strengths. Some focus upon its weaknesses. What matters though is the long run, when we get over our initial reactions.

More like as in the Golden Age of Google search, where the product optimized for returning the best, most relevant, most reputable results. As in, pre enshitification.

Its already stained. And it was never golden so why care?

I assume you didn't try Google in the late 90s?

I did and calling it a golden age is not wrong compared to what we have now. I was referrimg to the golden age of „voice only“ here