Agree.
So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"
The safest path is to consider it a blob. There is some library that can render it magically and that's the only wise thing you can do. The internal structure is hard to understand. Also, definitions change over time. So, you better leave it all to professionals.
I wonder why Mediterranean nations switched from ideograms to alphabet as soon as one was invented. Probably they did not have enough surplus grain to feed something like the Unicode consortium?
The technique itself is indeed very elegant.