While I agree that the current LLM-based approaches won't get us to (sentient) AGI, I think this article is missing a key point: the entire modern AI revolution (while founded on research work esp coming from Google) was fired up by the AGI dreamers at OpenAI with GPT3+ then ChatGPT etc. They were first in industry; they created the field.
Even if you don't expect them to get us over the final line, you should give them credit for that.
You confound my point with some other of your own misreading.
To repeat: The claim of the article is clearly incorrect. It's precisely the AGI "fantasists" that have engineered the incredible technological landscape we now live in.
If you disagree, it would be useful to frame your argument in a clearer and less condescending fashion.
Even if you don't expect them to get us over the final line, you should give them credit for that.