Has the open source community gotten a little too spoiled?

Genuinely asking, because some of the reactions to models like ideogram 4 and now krea2 have surprised me.

I'm not talking about fair criticism, pointing out weaknesses, or comparing them honestly to other models. That's normal and useful. What I don't really get is when people act like these models are complete trash or basically unusable who also get a surpising amount of upvotes.

From my perspective, that's hard to understand when open models have improved this much. With some tweaking, training, and the right workflow, a lot of them feel on par with, and sometimes even better than, closed models in certain areas. You can run them locally, generate high-resolution images, get a huge amount of control, and produce strong realism, all on midrange or even budget hardware in something like 20 seconds to a few minutes, depending on the setup.

That is kind of amazing when you step back and think about it.

I've been having a great time experimenting with these models lately, and honestly I've been impressed by how much is possible now. Then I come here and see comments that dismiss a model instantly over one flaw, one design choice, or one part of the workflow they don't like, and it feels a bit disproportionate.

To be clear, I'm not saying people shouldn't ciritcize these models. They absolutely should. Criticism is how things improve. I just think there's a difference between saying "this has real problems" and saying "this model is garbage" when it's still capable of doing a lot, especially for something open source.

Maybe expectations have just risen really fast, which is understandable. But sometimes it feels like people are judging open models as if anything short of perfection means failure, and that seems a little unfair