What I'm trying to point out is that if you had asked someone whether any of those examples were "pattern matching" prior to the discovery that neural networks were so good at them, very reasonable and knowledgeable people would have said no. They would have said that generating sentences which make sense is more than any system _which simply predicted the next character in a sequence of characters_ could do.
Given this track record, I have learned to be suspicious of that part of my brain which reflexively says "no, I'm doing something more than pattern matching"
It sure feels like there's something more. It feels like what I do when I program or think about solutions to climate change is more than pattern matching. But I don't understand how you can be so sure that it isn't.