My thoughts too. The LLMs made me understand that the world had been working like that long before LLMs. Luck plays an enormous part in life. We gravitated toward a discipline that seemed free of all those problems, when in fact it had those downfalls better disguised.

I think it is a very good point: "because the "accidentals" become tied up with things like nepotism, unfair and arbitrary"

I never thought of this from this perspective but indeed it seems to be totally true.