Youre looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.

It was that the AI boom/bubble is a new technology in its infancy. It's not comparable to the stuff you mention, which were all[1] second wave "Web 2.0" products being introduced into an established market. The proper comparison would be to the period in the mid-late 90's up until the dot com burst, when "internet" technology was sudden and gestational.

And it sucked. Nothing worked. TCP was "established" technology that needed tweak after tweak. The whole stack failed regularly and catastrophically, at every level from backbone routers to browser rendering. People were gluing together solutions to problems using tools written on 1970's teletypes because the "new" stuff from Microsoft was even worse.

It was glorious. But it sucked. And the same is true right now. Nothing you use is going to do what you want exactly. And we all get to figure out how to make it not suck together.

[1] Except Google search itself, which was a comparative latecomer (anyone remember DEC and Altavista?) but still part of the initial rush. And thus is sort of the exception that proves the rule: the one product in the infancy rush of a new technology wave that doesn't suck (or sucks least) gets to be the next tech giant. Seems like the smart money right now is on Anthropic, but we'll see.