Well, my answer was partially tongue in cheek. However, under the circumstances I mentioned I had better results with a local model. But then up to today I really like Deepseek for dev - for me and my use cases it still outperforms Opus. The problem is we don't have good and universal benchmarks, inststead we have benchmaxxing. For my use cases Chinese models may be perfect but maybe for yours American one's may outperform them by a huge margin? So I urge you to use YCI - Your Capability Index.