That's why a technologist can, just as easily as any layman, get addicted to gambling, or do crazy behaviors when attracted by the opposite sex.
Which is also why marketing and advertising works on EVERYONE. When AI puts out the phrase "Prompt engineering", everyone instinctively treat it as something deterministic, despite them having some idea of how an LLM works...
LLMs are highly intelligent. Comparing them to spreadsheets is reductionist and highly misleading.
I will tell you why it is not.
Intelligence is understanding low level stuff and using it to reason about and understand high level stuff.
When LLMs demonstrate "highly intelligent" behavior, like solving a complex math problem (high level stuff), but also simultaneously demonstrate that it does not know how to count (low level stuff that the high level stuff depends on), it proves that it is not actually "intelligent" and is not "reasoning".
Do you have any rational objection to the definition? If you don't have, then I am afraid that you don't have a point.