I think most people unfortunately don't care about any of those things, or at least they don't care enough as we are about to see by the trillion dollar IPOs of these AI megalabs.
Anthropic continues to serve haiku - which suggests people have a use for less-than sota models.
A bugatti is undoubtedly a higher performance car than a honda civic. Yet if you're commuting to work in rush hour traffic, both cars will get you there in the same amount of time - and one is going to cost you a lot less.
The pitch of the frontier labs is that you need a bugatti for everything. I don't buy that.