They aren’t interesting in the slightest, as anything they can do is already done more effectively and efficiently with other tools

Then why are the other tools not being used?

LLMs translate much better than anything that was engineered. Summarization of text is another application where there are simply no engineered counterparts.

LLMs certainly don’t live up to the absurd hype created by the tech sector, but it is just as absurd to state that they are worse than other tools in all tasks.