I don't believe that devs are the audience. They are pushing this to decision makers where they want them to think that the state of the art is further ahead than it is. These folks then think about how helpful it'd be to have 20% of that capability. When there is so much noise in the market, and everyone seems to be overtaking everyone else it, this kind of approach is the only one that gets attention.

Similarly, a lot of the AGI-hype comments exist to expand the scope of the space. It's not real, but it helps to position products and win arguments based on hypotheticals.