Right.
> except that that is the same thing the same people say for every model release,
I did not say that, no.
I am sure you can find someone who is in a Groundhog Day about this, but it’s just simpler than that: as tools improve, more people find them useful than before. You’re not talking to the same people, you are talking to new people each time who now have had their threshold crossed.
no, it's the same names, again and again
That sounds like a claim you could back up with a little bit of time spent using Hacker News search or similar.
(I might try to get a tool like o3 to run those searches for me.)