What I have been reading makes me want to both agree and disagree with your take here. I think the fact that some of these things are not only established but are much simpler than one would think at first glance yields the much cooler realization that you can not only do a lot more than abliteration, but that humans can do it by hand if the thing is made legible.

From my experience with models when it comes to discernment about particular things, the models, even the best ones, still are not very good. The thing that we are most missing I think is acceleration in creating editing tools for humans that make the otherwise inscrutable both visually legible and interactive.