> Most people who were complaining did so .

It has been this way since the beginning, unfortunately. There is certainly no harm in trying on local models on local workloads with modest guardrails.

Like most of these models (Qwen, Gemma, Llama, gpt-oss), finding all the little gotchas like, special tokens and prompt structure, model preference are a PITA right now. The reward are really nice models that run exceptionally well in agentic harnesses tuned with the prompts and parameters you fought so hard to learn.