I'm concerned that journalism is all empty hype these days. What with their long, costly, quixotic, roll-out of endless, more-or-less identical, attempts to explain away AI, which, despite constantly shifting PR have long since plateaued in quality and ceased to wow the public.
When was that halcyon time when you knew a subject well and some outlet published a really good in-depth story about it? Maybe it happened, but I don't think it happened in this timestream.
Michael Crichton, of all people, coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia, possibly describing your reaction.