Statements like these remind me how much each of us are in our own unique information bubbles. People seemed very excited about analysing the differences of each model on my feeds.

Have you used recent ones on any large projects or coding issues? They've improved tremendously lately in my experience, in terms of implementing non-trivial things, debugging, handling legacy/complex codebases, etc. I usually keep a text document of things that models failed to do/fix and recent ones have wiped it all away.