I don't think anyone would argue that dogs can't communicate with us. They can absolutely communicate.
They are not using verbal language.
Bunny often does not pick specific buttons. Instead she targets the buttons in general, hits the most obvious/salient button, and waits for feedback from her person. Bunny's videos often feature cuts (where we have no idea what happened) or sped up portions. Many, many "talking dog" videos (Bunny is just the most prominent example) show huge amounts of displacement and stress behavior (disengaging, random sniffing, lip licks, etc) in between button presses that are ignored by the person videoing.
Babies babble in very predictable ways, and importantly the babbling stage is transient. It ends. Humans babble for a limited period in our early life as our brain and body develop, and then we stop using babbling. Babbling is also often self-directed (ie, not communicative at all, just solo practice).
Bunny has had access to her buttons for literal years at this point. This isn't a new tool for her.
Absolutely nobody has demonstrated the ability of dogs or non-human animals in general to construct sentences. Individual words, yes; words with modifiers, sometimes (individual and species dependent); occasionally some grasp of verbs and time.
This is a good one to watch. Bunny hits [mad], receives keep going feedback from handler, hits [ouch] (note that those two are close together), more keep going feedback, orients to handler, shows expectant body language--this is common from dogs who know that certain behaviors get rewarded, often my dogs will do this and then if not rewarded, repeat the behavior more intensely. Then there is a cut. We don't know what happens in the cut. Bunny swats at her face/ear with her right paw and hits [stranger]. This is a nonsensical button to push, and she does know "stranger" to some degree, because when handler repeats the word, Bunny orients to the window and looks outside.
Then Bunny hits [paw], which may be deliberate. Definitely once handler says "in your paw", Bunny responds to that as a cue--approach handler, and gives her left paw. So not the same one she was fussing with earlier.
Is Bunny communicating? 100%.
What is she communicating? That she likes to play this silly game with her person but she's not always clear on which answers will get rewarded (for her, clearly attention is rewarding).
Is this the quickest way to learn there's a thorn in my dog's foot? No. My dogs will limp dramatically; one of them will come to me and hit me with the affected foot.
Is Bunny deliberately telling her handler that there's a thorn in her paw? Absolutely not. There is a minimum of 38 seconds between the first button press and the paw examination. If she is deliberately telling her handler, I would expect [ouch] and [paw] in quick succession. Instead she starts with [mad] (why? LOTS of attention for [mad]!! It's a very funny button to press!!) before offering some others. Similarly [paw] is a very clear button with clear cause-effect.
My dogs know a lot of words and show different behavior for those words. They know the difference between "person", "dog", "cat", and "bicycle". They also exhibit clear communication towards me: I'm scared is different from I'm in pain is different from I'm bored love me, even when all are broadly expressed by trying to climb in my lap.
None of this is language though.
Bunny is 100% Clever Hans. What happens if you ask Bunny a question to which the asker does not know the answer? What happens if you use a pre-recorded audio to talk to her? What happens if you watch her with even a little bit of skepticism? Are there simpler answers to her behavior?
For a less human-cued example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9_fZu5L6SCs?feature=share This is very cute, but also one button press, again with a very simple definition. And before the button press, she had been clearly requesting attention! She is rewarded for the button press with attention! This is straight forward operant conditioning!
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