Yes, it is a very interesting aspect of these models that they have a “low self esteem” (of course, not in the literal human sense) in their own abilities until you give them a pep talk, “don’t worry LLM, you got this”
A 10 year graphic design artist talking to another career graphic design artist will be opinionated about selecting a specific font for example. But an persona-less AI trained to be helpful to all people should not be so opinionated, since a beginner might be mislead into thinking there's only 1 font for their situation, rather than an assortment of guidelines and intuition most professionals have.