It's more hedonic adaptation, people just aren't as impressed by incremental changes anymore over big leaps. It's the same as another thread yesterday where someone said the new MacBook with the latest processor doesn't excite them anymore, and it's because for most people, most models are good enough and now it's all about applications.
Plus people just really like to whine on the internet
Oh, come on, if it can't run local models that compete with proprietary ones it's not good enough yet!
Qwen 3.5 small models are actually very impressive and do beat out larger proprietary models.