I suspect that's at least partially because all of that doesn't stop the hype from being pushed on and on without mercy. Which in turn is probably because the perverse amounts of investment that went into this have to be reclaimed somehow with monetization. Imagine all those VCs having to realize that hundreds of billions of $$$ are lost to wishful hallucinations. Before they concede that there will of course be much astroturfing in the vein of your last paragraph.
I suspect that's at least partially because all of that doesn't stop the hype from being pushed on and on without mercy. Which in turn is probably because the perverse amounts of investment that went into this have to be reclaimed somehow with monetization. Imagine all those VCs having to realize that hundreds of billions of $$$ are lost to wishful hallucinations. Before they concede that there will of course be much astroturfing in the vein of your last paragraph.