Yes, unironically claiming that and not wild at all if you're a practitioner.

It doesn't become actual reasoning just because you chose to call it so. If they did reason, LLMs would not fail at ridiculously easy problems like strawberry or car wash ones.

LLMs are great at search. They only emulate reasoning. They can't actually reason but they approximate it. Combine it with copious amount of computes and some search problems become tractable.