Welcome to the AI effect. Progress in AI, no matter how large or small, is almost never recognized as progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

>"It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." AI researcher Rodney Brooks complains "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, Oh, that's just a computation."

>When IBM's chess playing computer Deep Blue succeeded in defeating Garry Kasparov in 1997, people complained that it had only used "brute force methods" and it wasn't real intelligence. Fred Reed writes "A problem that proponents of AI regularly face is this: When we know how a machine does something 'intelligent,' it ceases to be regarded as intelligent. If I beat the world's chess champion, I'd be regarded as highly bright."

Now we have computers beating games without using brute force methods (as well as being good at various other unrelated AI tasks, i.e. "general") and we see the same thing happening. This is an amazing achievement.