what harness did you use?
For comparison's sake, Qwen 3.6 35B A3B MLX, same prompt, same machine, thought for 1.59 seconds, used 2,398 tokens, and hit 80.83 tok/s. It actually output just a straight SVG file of an owl (not a bad owl either!), whereas Qwen 3.8 27B spent a zillion times longer gold-plating everything and output HTML+JS+SVG with interactive animation, sound, etc., etc.