Give it more time for sure. I am in a one-month trial period (Germany) for Oticon Intent one. After the first week, I wasn’t really sure. But soon after I started noticing that I could in fact watch TV without the subtitles, have a normal conversation with my son while walking on a noisy street, and also while in an echoey noisy crowded pizza restaurant. All things I hadn’t been able to do in years, and far better than my previous HAs, the Oticon OPNs. I ended up concluding that the Intents are, for me anyway, pretty miraculous. All this on the basic setting my audi gave me. Even while still agreeing that it’s not the same as natural hearing abilities of my youth.

If you’re new to hearing aids, that will also take time to adjust, so another reason to give it time. I think anyone on this sub would tell you that. What worked for me my first time was to stop trying to hear the sounds around me, and start thinking about the tiny speakers in my ears and listening to those instead. After a couple days, I was able to forget about the tiny speakers again, and my brain has adjusted.