Ok I'll rephrase. "After 30+ years of intense research it has hard to develop the tools to generalised fast perception". Whereas in that time we have developed tools that make higher level reasoning computationally cheap in comparison. But as you yourself say that's just semantics.
If you try to do something for over 30 years and make little progress, compared to another area of activity were many of the hard problems are solved in just a few years and the solutions to harder problems keep on coming, that's pretty good evidence that the first problem area is a hard one, however you try to finesse the description of the problems.
This was in response to the above post using phrases like "intrinsically harder" and "highly dependent on the representations and models used".
Apart from that I agree with you...
I'm not so sure you start a good argument though. 'Harder' is all about the tools at hand. If you have the right tools, everything is easy. So to me this is all semantics. To me all the wikipedia page basically says is 'we haven't invented a good artificial tool for generalized, fast perception'.
Of course the other way to think about it is that humans and other animals devote generally much larger amounts of physical space (in the brain and otherwise) to subconscious things like perception and subconscious memory than they do to conscious things like logic...