Did you look at the charts in the article?

It out-performed every model that wasnt a max/ultrafrontier of some sort, except for the one that the article was extolling the virtues of, including grok high. you could make a good argument that deepseek is a better value, but gemini flash is when bundled is already pretty accessible.

nowhere did i claim that flash was better than fable or 5.5xhigh.