If you grab the most extreme examples you can argue anything. The general feeling was “exercise caution” and “we need to think about this.”
Oh stop, the current crop of kneecapping llms is already bad enough with how they cripple those. It would have been even worse if the 'we need to think about this' crowd kept the reins. At least now, we can have both: safe corporate crap and whatever you want llm.