The complaints about availability are at least somewhat true given the thoroughly brain-dead idea of announcing a model when it's released only to a very exclusive group - since it kills any positive rumours.

But I concur with the question about hallucinations. Worst I ever got since 3.7 flash if not earlier was model drifting too far when working on something very much new to itself and not being critical enough, something mk ostkt fixed by adversarial critical review subagent