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Current GTEs can rival the pace of the old GT1s, but it's taken us the best part of a decade to get there. It's taken a gradual evolution of tire technology, aerodynamics and chassis dynamics to get there.
Unless you let hyper cars into a new GT1 class, I highly doubt that we'll have GTs that rival LMPs any time soon. And even if such a class was made up right now, how many car makers would bite? That's another risk you're taking.
LMP2 got to where it is now though a similar evolution. It took new chassis based on closed LMP1 specs, a new engine, and evolutions in tire and aero tech.
This didn't happen overnight. It also didn't take overnight for LMP1 to get to where it is. It took LMP900/GTP, and three incarnations of the overall LMP1 regs to get here, something that took almost 15 years to achieve.
By the same reasoning, it took GTE to become what it is today similarly as long. GTE became what it is from the old BPR GT3 regs become ACO GT after GT1 became LMGTP and GT2 became GTS (and later GT1), then it became GT2 and became GTE (originally a re-branding on GT2 and splitting it into a dedicated all-pro and pro-am class each), and then the 2016 rules updates.
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