"For instance, it wasn't asked to evaluate the pawn structure and provide that analysis as an output, but it certainly could be programmed to do so."

This quite misses the point. These programs do that as a matter of course, for individual positions. But choosing a move is the result of evaluating many millions of positions and comparing the scores through tree pruning. The program cannot tell you that it chose one move over another because the chosen move is generally better for the pawn structure than the move not chosen, because it doesn't have that information and cannot obtain it.

>This quite misses the point.

Or, maybe you missed mine.