I saw this in Gruber's review of the iPhone 18 Pro,
I didn’t review the iPhone 17 Pro until last week, when I unabashedly declared it the best phone Apple had ever made. The iPhone 18 Pro is only different from the 17 Pro in ways that make it better. Thus, it is clearly now the new best phone Apple has ever made. It’s the culmination of an entire decade of year-after-year iteration on the iPhone X’s ground-up redesign. It’s the best version of the most successful product ever made. And yet by nature of how the iPhone 18 Pro improved in the last year, it’s not exciting at all. How jaded we all are.
And that explains the feeling I have as well. If a man like Gruber can go without reviewing the Pro phone for a year, of course I can feel the same way about book reviews and other things. I need to write things in the moment, like the two poems I wrote last night while walking. Like this thing I'm writing now.