I understand the feeling. It may be caused by habit rather than objectivity, though. Those open-source AI hacks are undergoing early productization: while they were only research, their modularity mattered for experimentization, but as they get closer to something that can ship, the one-click binary form factor is a nice stepping stone.

It is similar in my mind to the early days of Linux, where you had to compile it yourself and tweaked some compiler flags, compared to now, where most people don’t even think about the fact that their phone or Steam deck runs it.