I've learned to see overtly enthusiastic consensus as a red flag for tech innovation. Things like PCs, GUIs, smartphones, social media etc that legit disrupted society got big adoption first then the changes ensued by that caught the collective attention.
People swooning over expected change is usually a pretty good signal reality will fall short.
Then the cracks began to show...
The difference is that GPT has had some successful demos that look pretty amazing. Time will tell if we have merely invented a more clever Clever Hans.