I use it to get the keywords and ideas, then use the normal search engine to get the facts. Still, even in this limited capacity I find the LLMs very useful.

That’s similar to how I use it. Useful, but not game changing. Definitely not at the level of the hype.

This is exactly the experience I've had. Recently started learning OpenTofu(/Terraform) and the company now had Gemini as part of the Workspace subscription. It was great to get some basic going, but very quickly starts suggesting wrong or old or bad practices. Still using it as a starting point and to help known what to start searching for, but like you said, it's only slightly better than a regular search engine.