Your explanation makes sense, but I don’t know how you can make a sweeping generalization about more recently released models without qualifying it.

This is says more about humans tendency to pattern match than anything else.

X works better than Y only is only a useful observation if we are using the same X and Y in a similar context, with similar parameters. Kind of goes out the window without it and I think this is part of why people have such vastly different opinions about the same technologies. We’re all talking past each other.