> we will have another years long "halt" of any real advancements coming to the public

One can hope. Probably an unpopular take here but I'm tired boss.

The software world has a huge backlog of things that can all be done with the tech we currently have, no breakthrough advancements needed, but none of it will get prioritized when we're all forced to run on the new and shiny treadmill. Ever since LLM hype its like the javascript culture of a new framework every 10 minutes has infected every other vertical of software development and I'm exhausted.