First thing is that the market is pretty young. Imagine you are now using IBM mainframe PC to run chatgpt and not even windows1.0 on your IBM pc.
There are small AI models. Small agentic capable AI models that can do tool calling. GenAI and what you described. One thing is some solutions are mathematically impossible to gain certain quality. Other thing is they're just not owned by billionaires and not used by corporations so press don't cover them and nobody cares except few enthusiasts and people that need such capabilities and know limitations. Press only covers what they're paid for or what can gain some traction.
The hate on AI as you described doesn't help AI as a science domain. It's not really related to science but related to ineffective spending of money by billionaires.
Because there is no alternatives to spend money. Most of businesses are either buying from or are owned by corporations. The market is regulated by handful of people who try to tell everyone that there is free market.
There is no free market.
Countries are buying from same people, small businesses are buying from same people, you are buying from same people.
Brand names are shuffled to make people confused, give people illusion of choice.
We are imprisoned slaves that work for elites whole life. There is no hope there is no bailout. They will do it because they can and nobody can stop them because they have hundreds of organizations to protect them and politics who create laws for them.
If you had Office you could use Microsoft Office FrontPage