Gemini's User Base Is Fragmenting Into Two Incompatible Audiences

A detailed thread on r/GoogleGeminiAI this week confirmed what power users have been saying for months: Gemini in AI Studio is better when compared to the App . The post itself supplied no methodology — the claim rested entirely on accumulated user experience. But the thread it generated revealed something more structural: nobody argued with the premise. The comments divided between users who already knew this and users who had never tried AI Studio. The gap is not about model capability — it is about discovery. Google has not told…