I absolutely understand the power user perspective. The point is not that, and maybe I wasn't clear enough in pointing it out.

Here, something different is going on instead of the usual "base tool is ok for 90% of use cases, remaining 10% is covered by plugins and extensions". A lot of developers are finding it difficult to commit to agentic coding workflows, feeling a stretch on a lot of different aspects.

Companies, with the help of a very prominent and vocal part of the web and social media community, are addressing every issue by simply blaming the users, saying it's their fault if they're not keeping up with all the alleged advancements in prompt strategies. See the whole "maybe you haven't tried it in the last two months, everything's changed now". While it's true that things have been moving very fast, the fundamental idea behind the technology is the same, and some concerns about it simply cannot be wiped away by scaling some factors.