You can just straight up ask Opus if it's good at generating images and it will say no. It has never been marketed as being for image generation.

More and more I suspect OpenAI is generating comments on HN to try shift the discussion.

I’m not sure you’re a bot but this is the stereotypical comment being overly critical of anything where OpenAI is not superior or being overly supportive (see comments on the Codex post today) while clearly not understanding the discussed topic at all.

Claude is actually very good at SVGs, and it's genuinely useful. I have Claude knock out little SVG icons all the time.

Illustrations with SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles will never be useful, because pelicans can't ride bicycles.