I couldn't agree more. This has been the Marketing spin for many generations of intel Graphics solutions. "Oh this might not be as performant as one might want, but wait for next year's Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Haswell/Broadwell. Graphics will be x times as fast!"
And then it turns out it is barely more performant but hey... next year's will be though!
To be fair, Intel has made a lot of progress with their IGP's over the last few years. I have been slamming Intel graphics for exactly the same reasons you and the commenter before you (and rightly so), but times do change. HD3000 and HD4000 were both big steps forward, much bigger than anything AMD has shown in the same timeframe, but Intel was so far behind that they were still lacking. Haswell graphics (HD5000, specifically Iris Pro) are already pretty close behind the lower-end AMD IGP's though. If Intel manages a similarly large step forward with Broadwell, they might just step into the same league AMD is playing in.
