I partially agree, it seems a lot have shifted the argument to news media criticism or something else. But this study is also questionable, for anyone who reads actual academic studies that should be immediately obvious. I don't understand why the bar is this low for some paid Ipsos study vs. some peer-reviewed paper in some IEEE journal?
Like for a study like this I expect as a bare minimum clearly stated model variants used, R@k recall numbers measuring retrieval and something like BLEU or ROUGE to measure summarization accuracy against some baseline on top of their human evaluation metrics. If this is useless for the field itself, I don't understand how this can be useful for anyone outside the field?