The middle gets lower and lower with every passing day.

Well yeah, when you race to the middle, the middle becomes the top, and then you've got to go find the new middle.

Ive noticed that the subtle/nunance gets lost with every so-called improvement with the models.

Im in no way anti-LLMs as I have benefited from them, but I believe the issue that will arise is that their unpredictable nature means that they can only be used in narrowly defined contexts. Safety and trust are paramount. Would you use online banking if the balance on your account randomly changed and was not reproducible? No chance.

This does not achieve the ROI that investors of these model producers are thinking. The question is whether said investors can sell off their shares before it becomes more widely known.