Why did people miss the point on Mythos?

I have seen a lot of coverage suggesting that Claude’s new model, Mythos, is a vehicle for Anthropic to peddle hype and doom in order to raise money. While some of this is necessarily motivated by people’s unwillingness to stare into the abyss of our AI future, the breadth of otherwise-reasonable people who have voiced these kinds of cynical opinions suggests that part of the blame rests on Anthropic.