I'm a contrarian who believes your anecdote, and could even imagine that 5% of LLM users feel the same way, but thinks (a) these systems are about half as good

I'm a contrarian who believes your anecdote, and could even imagine that 5% of LLM users feel the same way, but thinks (a) these systems are about half as good as they're ever going to get, (b) we're past the point of diminishing returns, and (c) what we do have isn't worth the energy costs of running it, let alone creating it in the first place.