Most LLM critics (and singularity-is-near influencers) don't actually use the systems enough to have relevant opinions about them. The only really good sources of truth is the chatbot-arena from lmsys and the comment section of r/localllama (I'm quoting Karpathy), both are "wisdom of the crowd" and often the crowd on r/localllama is getting that wisdom by spending hours with one hand on the keyboard and another under their clothes.