You're not taking into account the fact that LLMs are an obvious dead end.
Once that bubble bursts it'll take decades before anyone invests in AI research again and for anything attached to the term “AI” to not be seen as a scam (LLMs are obviously not AI or anything close, but they're being sold as such and that's what the term will be associated with), not to mention we'll need decades to clean up all the LLM slop spillage before proper research of any kind can proceed.
What you said was valid before the well got poisoned.
Now it's extremely unlikely we'll survive long enough to get back on track.
LLM peddlers murdered the future, in the name of short term profits.
Had one in 2004, didn't result in security theater (though its mishandling did almost certainly result in the ruling party losing the election).