Could part of the issue be that Google recently switched a large number of Androids from using Google assistant to using Gemini? In terms of either sheer numbers of clients, or more mobile clients poisoning the well? Just guessing really. Not every vendor has pushed the update yet.

I've been using it since August '24 and it has never been reliable enough for production. My app from then is broken because it doesn't follow instructions, especially when you make it output JSON without some middle layer to "repair" the broken bits. There was a point where it simply broke all the JSON arrays and I had to restructure it to not use arrays.

It seems to work okay for something like Cursor, where you clearly realize that you're using a certain model and are willing to take on the risk for higher quality output.