I have to agree with you but I'll remain a skeptic until the preview tag is dropped. I found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be AMAZING during preview and then it's performance and quality unceremoniously dropped month after month once it went live. Optimizations in favor of speed/costs no doubt but it soured me on jumping ship during preview.

Anthropic pulled something similar with 3.6 initially, with a preview that had massive token output and then a real release with barely half -- which significantly curtails certain use cases.

That said, to-date, Gemini has outperformed GPT-5 and GPT5.1 on any task I've thrown at them together. Too bad Gemini CLI is still barely useful and prone to the same infinite loop issues that have plagued it for over a year.

I think Google has genuinely released a preview of a model that leapfrogs all other models. I want to see if that is what actually makes it to production before I change anything major in my workflows.