I think we keep getting used to intelligence improvements and the goal posts are always moving forward.

I remember that close to an year ago i felt the same way about opus 4.5. And even if you can easily run ds or qwen locally to get very similar results to that, we moved to 5.5 being the new target.

Deepseek can do 90% of the job but a claude reviwer/spec writer is a brutal improvement.