What about quality? Being cheaper and faster, while great and all, is less valuable than quality to me.

All the code an LLM produces is of questionable quality, so I'm not sure why you'd prioritize quality over speed. Speed is their only value add.

This is a wild take. All cars can perfectly drive around a track, so why would you ever want an F1 car?

Have you compared models across providers? The quality, for the same task, varies tremendously. If you don't prioritize quality you're wasting your own time when you inevitably have to re-do the code...

All code is of questionable quality.

There I fixed it

You can always have opus review the result at the end

I've had bad results with this method. If I ask any model to review the same code ten times, then I will get ten different answer.