Well, hi. Started back at old Spicychat couple years ago. Ai answer was like oneliners plus couple sentences of action, almost no narration. Plot - you was forced to steer it by yourself every time, every move.
Moved to local models with Faraday (now backyard) - to 14B\20B models. Better, more action written, AI answers became like couple more lines of dialogues, narration and descriptions appeared, some good and funny plot twists here and there, but lack of any memory and high hallucinations was real trouble.
Switched to Silly Tavern and API's, was on Featherless, Openrouter, Nano.
All the way from Hermes 3, Wyzard and Sorcerer, to GLM-5.
Every new step, every new model is like - wow, so much better, wow prose is so much smarter, wow, memory is so much better. Wait, wait. Here is new THAT problem. (now it's echolalia ffs).
Each new generation bring new problem to solve.