The first time I used Gemini, I gave it a youtube link and asked for a transcript. It told me how I could transcribe it myself. Honestly, I haven't used it since. Was that unfair of me?
Gemini is much worse as a product than 4o or Claude. I recommend using it from Google AI studio rather than the official consumer facing interface. But for tasks with large audio/visual input, it's better than 4o or Claude.
Whether you want to deal with it being annoying is your call.
No it’s a terrible product that is embarrassingly bad compared to the competition. I ditched it after paying for a month of Gemini Advanced because it was so much worse other offerings.
GPT told me the same thing when I asked it to make an API call, or do an image search, or download a transcript of a YouTube video, or...
The consumer Gemini is very prudish and optimized against risk to Google.