IMO there's a qualitative difference now, because of the NN approach. Prior to V12, what you saw is all you got. There was no guarantee it would necessarily get better; the weak points rotated around for the past year but the overall quality of the drive did not improve (for me it went from tolerable to less than that). But if the first public release of V12 is as good as it looks from Omar's vids, at there's hope now, if you believe in machine learning. I mean, what in the world could ever cause it to regress now? If we ever see it regress, the only conclusion would be that the NN is broken (and that may very well still happen, we just don't know...)
But if the NN actually works, it can only get better (more reliable, more confident, less hesitant, safer, yada yada). So that's what I'm waiting to see. I'm not running around saying "Tesla has finally solved FSD" but I'm feeling optimistic for the first time in a year and a half.