It’s definitely on purpose - but if the purpose was to help the users making good choices they could actually give information - and explain what is what - instead of hiding it.
I use Ollama for prototyping and then move what I can to a vLLM set up
I think the main point that turned me off was how they have their custom way of storing weights/metadata on disk, which makes it too complicated to share models between applications, I much prefer to be able to use the same weights across all applications I use, as some of them end up being like 50GB.
I ended up using llama.cpp directly (since I am a developer) for prototyping and recommending LM Studio for people who want to run local models but aren't developers.
But again, if you find Ollama useful, I don't think there is any reasons for dropping it immediately.
ollama has their own way of releasing their models.
when you download r1 you get 7b.
this is due to not everyone is able to run 671b.
if its missleading then more likely due to user not reading.