This sounds like a human trying to reason about quantum mechanics. We als simplify to newtonian for day to day tasks.

I like this analogy. Both GenRel and QM are well beyond our experience, and although there is some intuition that comes from working with the equations over time, it is bizarre and "just calculate" often gets the correct answer faster.

Picking the right tool or model is like picking the right problem to work on. It's actually quite hard (often you can't just try them all), but without it you will be incredibly inefficient and occasionally, fundamentally wrong.

All models are wrong, but some are useful. -Box

LeCun calling them "world models" gives a high-level description of the desired functionality. They are Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (with SIGReg). They might produce more useful world models, but it's yet to be seen.