Why do people keep fine-tuning on summarized/censored SOTA CoT traces?

Am I missing something? It seems like some people think distillation is magic and will raise the quality of output above what the base model is actually capable of. It's especially weird to me to see all these Fable fine-tunes, because as far as I understand it, they miss the fact that the reasoning

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Am I missing something? It seems like some people think distillation is magic and will raise the quality of output above what the base model is actually capable of. It's especially weird to me to see all these Fable fine-tunes, because as far as I understand it, they miss the fact that the reasoning