This is true. I think it was hard to reason about how important the internet would be because it was expensive to get on and it needed Google to make discovery exponentially better. It took a long time for access to become cheap enough to be almost ubiquitous in a developed country.

ML, AI, whatever, is clearly usable now. But it has limits. And I think it's clear that it's not fully baked relative to the promises. We certainly don't have a Killer App yet.