Did humans vastly overestimate their capabilities?

Areas like Robotics, AI and Genetics were supposed to be the things that shot us into the realm of a real Sci-Fi future, yet all of those fields have been met by dead end after dead end. At best they've achieved stagnation or have shifted over to completely different objectives than what they set out to do.

Robots, human-like AI and widespread gene-editing are just pipedreams, much like interstellar travel.

Hell, even just making a big fucking telescope and putting it further out into space has proved to be a herculean effort for humanity. Just look at the JWST.