Completely agree, that there are legitimate reasons to prefer comparison to e.g. deepeek models. But that doesn't change my point, we both agree that the comparisons would be extremely unfavorable.
> that the comparisons would be extremely unfavorable.
Why should they compare apples to oranges? Ministral3 Large costs ~1/10th of Sonnet 4.5. They clearly target different users. If you want a coding assistant you probably wouldn't choose this model for various reasons. There is place for more than only the benchmark king.
