There is massive hype, no doubt about it, but lets also not forget how LLMs have basically solved NLP, are a step change in many dimensions and are disrupting and changing things like software engineering like nothing else before it.

So I hear you, but on the flip side we _should_ be reading a lot about LLMs here, as they have a direct impact on the work that most of us do.

That said, seeing other papers pop up that are not related to transformer based networks is appreciated.