I do not doubt your experience, but such statements should always be qualified by specifying the kind of tasks for which you have tried the models.

For all existing models, including for all SOTA models, you can find contradictory statements, that they suck and that they are great.

It is very likely that all these statements are true simultaneously, because each model may succeed for some tasks and fail for others, so without specifying the tested tasks any claim that a model was good or bad is worthless.

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