"Drone warfare" isn't really a thing. Drones in the battlefield remain something that:
a) Hegemon uses to avoid needing to deploy boots to the ground
b) Resource strapped combatants use as a supplement of guerrilla tactics
c) Specops have used to great publicity effect in a context of very heavy use of traditional intelligence assets
The narrative that "this changes everything" is very much in line with how we see the story around AI developing as well. Highly publicized demos that hide the enormous efforts in traditional technologies and good old human labor surrounding them.
