You should try and understand that it’s not magic, it’s a very specific set of actions aimed at a very specific result with very specific area of application. Every part of it is clear. There’s no uncharted area where we don’t know at all what happens. Engineering doesn’t work like that anywhere except action movies.

By the same logic as that “it isn’t perfect” a plane made of grass by cargo cult members can suddenly turn into a real aircraft.

And it won’t magically become something above it, if that’s what you mean by “get better”.

For the same reason we still don’t have a computer virus which developed conscience, and we won’t.

And if you think otherwise then you are what I described.

but it is also literally and technologically impossible for that to spontaneously coelesce into reason/logic/sentience

Yeah, see, one very popular modern religion (without official status or need for one to explicitly identify with id, but really influential) is exactly about “a wonderful invention” spontaneously emerging in the hands of some “genius” who “thinks differently”.

Most people put this idea far above reaching your goal after making myriad of small steps, not skipping a single one.

They also want a magic wand.

The fans of “AI” today are deep inside simply luddites. They want some new magic to emerge to destroy the magic they fear.