Quality is absolute. There were multiple LLMs released before ChatGPT, none made any splash, including GPT-3. Meta released one like 2 weeks before ChatGPT, and

Quality is absolute. There were multiple LLMs released before ChatGPT, none made any splash, including GPT-3. Meta released one like 2 weeks before ChatGPT, and had to shut it down for bad output quality. Only GPT3.5 started to meet the 'wow factor' for it to go fully viral. Until a product hits a minimum quality threshold, its useless. Which is basically what you stated later. Now most areas are mature enough that a copy pasted solution hits that minimum threshold (Eg, setting up a basic ecommerce site with ordering and payment). But for uncharted territory, that threshold is very real, hit it or die.