Of course, everyone is curious about these results, we're mathematicians after all. But by incentives I refer to those things that really sustain the system: obtaining permanent positions, grants for future projects, ideas for PhD theses, etc.
The term SOTA suggest that you approach this from a perspective other than a pure mathematician's, maybe ML or computational complexity? The openai results help me answer other open questions. It's a yes/no thing: is question answered or not? It's not a question of "okay, but will AI win back the SOTA from me again?"