Humane is not a scrappy little underdog. They have a quarter-billion in VC funding, more than enough to know that this product simply was not even remotely fit

Humane is not a scrappy little underdog. They have a quarter-billion in VC funding, more than enough to know that this product simply was not even remotely fit for purpose at this time, but they chose to release it anyway (for seven hundred dollars!), almost certainly because they wanted to get some sucker dollars while the AI hype wave was at its peak. Sympathy for them is profoundly misplaced: they tried to dump a bag on the public, and you're getting mad at the people pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.