I agree. They are definitely good - no issues with instruction following for example - but they miss the "intelligence" larger models have.
For implementation tasks, where I have the problem already defined and researched, or just simple task, I'd definitely use something like Luna xhigh or max. If the task is vague, or involves planning, I'd rather use Sol medium, even though it's theoretically worse on benchmarks.
Could do a "Big model for architecture and planning and smaller model (or local model) for implementation" sort of thing