This may sound like an insane take, but idc:
I swear people (esp here on HN) are actually blind to the weaknesses of Gemini.
I must be among the handful of people who know how thoroughly lobotomized any AI agent from Google must be given their extremely radical historical and contemporaneous practices of censorship.
I suspect those who praise Gemini use it mostly for JS/CSS/HTML because that's where it shines for me.
For complex code I have been having using Sonnet/Opus as usual with a mix of GPT5.3-Codex.