So you say, but I've done plenty of blind taste tests. The Chinese models are 99% as good for my purposes, and, I think, 99% of applied business programming purposes.
Of course, benchmarks don’t tell you how much it will cost on your workload.
GLM 5.3 was more expensive than Haiku and Sonnet 5.5 on a workload I was testing recently despite being much cheaper on the price sheet.