To be fair to sama he did say that "it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it"[1] but I suspect that was a kind of 4d chess move to hope to be quoted in situations like this when he knew the hype died down a few months later to cushion the blow after the hype cooled off.

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1635687853324902401