I disagree it is wrong, it is absolutely right. The car must be at the car wash, I was asking about how I am going to get there.

But your second point is fair: An LLM follow along as you lead it, it will offer solutions based on the input. For instance my friend had a sound issue, asking about it led them to all sorts of fixes/changes that were never going to get to the problem, because they framed it as a Linux problem, so therefore its a linux solution. Turns out it was a BIOS setting that took me all of a minute to diagnose and a minute for them to change. But the AI had walked them down nearly every path of sound back end, latency, kernel modules, etc.

You need some knowledge of the subject, which leads us back to the car thing: here the AI is not trying to wander down all the ways to get the car to the wash, you asked how YOU were going to get to the wash.