To me it comes across as forcing the idea that there is progress, and it cheapens these historical events when OpenAI inevitably drops the ball.

These "historic advancement" announcements make more sense when the target audience are firms such as Forrester[0] and Gartner[1], instead of those who would be charged with using them.

0 - https://www.forrester.com/research/

1 - https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/2025-ceo-challenges