Regarding me being a pretentious nimrod: no doubt there are many subscribers to this frame of mind.
Clarifying my structural comment: since LLMs are next token generators, they fall into the "aren't even wrong" side of lying versus truth-telling. Truth reflects a reality to which LLMs are not directly privy. Hallucinations are baked into the source. Harnesses on agents help to ground some, but they don't fully solve the issue. This doesn't make them useless. Just unreliable narrators (i.e. liars).