The author’s response doesn’t really address the complaint in the post quoted.

The complaint was that Gemini lacks basic utility. Intentionally making things that lack utility is a great way to express an idea, but to me that’s an art form or a statement, not a tool.

Gemini is a communication tool. While it’s noble to make something that is difficult to extract value from, a tool has to serve a purpose. The complaints, to me, feel legitimate critiques for a communication tool.

Whenever I venture into the Gemini-verse, I feel like I’m peeking into personal diaries left out at random. I am not a person to shy away from a good search for interesting information. But on Gemini, I don’t see a point in digging. That makes me feel like it’s still lacking as a communication tool.