obviously CoT has use, I shouldn't say it in such an extreme way- the problem is when you are using CoT to try to understand why something happened instead of just what happened. A model saying that they exploited a vulnerability for reason A doesn't mean that the real reason they exploited it wasnt a mix of reason B / C / D and that reason A was just the most statistically feasible reason why a certain archetype of personality would have made that decision.