Perhaps the only salient critique was the textual representation of the problem, but I think it was presented in a way where the model was given all the help it could get.
You forget the result of the paper was actually improving the model's performance and still failing to get anywhere near decent results.
What I do believe is that as the hype grows for this AI stuff, more and more people are going to be displaced and put out of work for the sake of making some rich assholes even richer. I wasn't a huge fan of "Open"AI as a company, but I sure as fuck would take them over fucking Microsoft, the literal comic-book tier evil megacorporation being at the helm of this mass displacement.
Yet, many of these legitimate concerns are just swatted away by AI sycophants with no actual answers to these issues. You get branded a Luddite (and mind you the Luddites weren't even wrong) and a sensationalist. Shit, you've already got psychopathic C-suites talking about replacing entire teams with current-day AIs, what the fuck are people supposed to do in the future when they get better? What, we're suddenly going to go full-force into a mystical UBI utopia? Overnight?