Doesn't this go both ways? A random selection of commenters online out of hundreds of thousands of devs using LLMs reporting degraded capability based on personal perception isn't exactly statistically meaningful data.

I've seen the cycle of claims going from "10x multiplier, like a team of junior devs" to "nerfed" for so many model/tool releases at this point it's hard for me not to believe there's an element of perceptual bias going on, but how much that contributes vs real variability on the backend is impossible to know for sure.