I’m somewhat indifferent to artifacts. While they can produce useful code occasionally when the codebase is relatively small, they become excessively cumbersome once it reaches around 500 lines. This makes it difficult to even add or remove code. If you want to change a few colors in a webpage, they have to rewrite the whole artifact. It frustrates me that you can’t edit a single line in an artifact; you have to rely on the LLM to do it.

I have ran into a few situations where there's some console error that is fixed by rewriting the thing from scratch. Artifacts are awesome for being able to display some sort of interactive tutoring tool I've made on the fly, but realistically I could just have that HTML/CSS/JS file myself and push it to my own site relatively easy. For others though, it's hosted there easily

I think that's a good decision. They know their market and it's intended for small projects and demo mostly from non tech people. And they did not built half baked editor for which people would have further complaints about. AI assisted coding is a whole different thing and there are many players.