same as it ever was. It seems your argument implies a belief that you should always use the best model. Others think that not all tasks require the absolute most powerful, expensive, model.

The CursorBench plot, for example, shows that fable does have slightly better performance, but Opus is pretty close, and is less expensive per task

fable on longer coding tasks with fable subagents will easily chew through hundreds of dollars in a single run.

less expensive per task might also mean less of your own time