Didn't expect a response, so thank you! I am aware that it is a literary device, it's just a pet peeve of mine to see LLMs as more than they are.

On the thesis of the article itself I am in agreement, though I would also put forth that it's important that scientific advances from LLMs can be formalized for human understanding for the sake of future exploration. We would not want LLMs to expand the frontier, only to have everyone stuck there because we don't know how to reach it.