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> concerning that every single Apple Intelligence feature they've shipped thus far has been not just mediocre; but bad

The very initial success of Microsoft was that everything was reliably mediocre. Most things Microsoft delivered that were truely bad were fixed within a few major versions. It was a superpower.

The same model works for most purchases on a bad|average|best spectrum: we never want to buy bad, best is difficult to buy, so we settle for average quality.

Aside: I think MS has gone downhill and is now bad on multiple dimensions for me