Oh yeah for sure, it's totally just more beta culture. But at the same time the first iPhone was called a "finished product" but it's missing a lot of what we would consider essential today.
In terms of people thinking LLMs are smarter than they really are, well...that's just people. Who hate each other for skin colour and sexuality, who believe that throwing salt over your shoulder wards away bad luck; we're still biological at the end of the day, we're not machines. Yet.
But the issue is with calling finished products what are laboratory partials. "Oh look, they invented a puppet" // "Oh, nice!" // "It's alive..."