when i think of what people love about chatgpt, i think it's that people are aware that the promise of natural language input is secretly the ability to bypass applications altogether but still retain all 'the good parts' (search, queryable data, etc). and you can see this in lots of the openai demos: chatbots as agents to do tasks in existing applications, often in concert across multiple applications.
but what does this say about the applications and their providers? beyond the marketing hype from openai, is the fervor for these demos a signal that application ui as we know it has failed? and to that end, what is the benefit of those embodied applications existing at all and not just being a series of apis.