What is performance like for you? I've been shocked at how many simple requests turn into >10 minutes of waiting.

If people are getting faster responses than this regularly, it could account for a large amount of the difference in experiences.

Agree with this, though I've mostly been using Gemini CLI. Some of the simplest things, like applying a small diff, take many minutes as it loses track of the current file state and takes minutes to figure it out or fail entirely.