ChatGPT is waay more surprising from the perspective of 2000 than Google Maps. Even if this is as good as it gets that’s another complete reshaping of our society as all the rote natural language jobs go the way of “computing clerk” - which was a thing, before mainframes and electronic calculators replaced them.
Otherwise, yeah, they’ve become so accustomed to “disruption” they have trouble imagining it stopping, even though it totally could.