I have been using chatgpt for a while and its awkward, yesterday i tried gemini and its like a breath of fresh air.

If you're finding Gemini "clean and straightforward" give it awhile. I felt the same thing too when I switched until I realized that it just hadn't formed a model for my communications yet. After awhile it became just as flowery as ChatGPT did. I had to tone both down with saved preferences.