Is the emotional support hype just a massive echo chamber

I keep seeing all these glowing articles about how artificial intelligence companions are revolutionizing mental health and providing deep emotional support. Honestly, I decided to test it out for a few weeks because work has been completely draining. What did I actually get? A glorified text generator that agrees with literally every single thing I type and parrots back my own thoughts in a slightly cheerier tone. If I say I am stressed, it tells me my feelings are completely valid and suggests a breathing exercise. It feels completely hollow once you realize there is zero actual comprehension behind the screen. I feel like people are just projecting their own desires onto sophisticated autocomplete tools and calling it revolutionary. Are we really this desperate for interaction that we are willing to pretend a bunch of mathematical weights care about our bad days? Wake me up when the software actually does something besides nodding along like a digital bobblehead.