You say it like it's a bad thing.

No, they are saying it like the comparison doesn’t hold. Which it doesn’t.

I say that like it's a thing. LLMs have the goal of replacing intellectual work with passive consumption. People seem to like that.

Basically, the selling point of LLMs is that you no longer need to think about problems, you can skip directly to results. Anything that you have to think about while using them today is somewhere on the product roadmap, or will be.

Many people think this is a form of utopia.

Just like computer is no longer a job description, yes.