Honestly, I didn’t get why manus is being mocked.

To me, this product is incredibly awesome. From the very first day it was positioned, it has followed an intelligent agent collaboration route—despite the underlying model being pretty bad, it still managed to deliver excellent results. Especially with chart rendering, it’s also the best ( before various skills even showed up.
Take Claude Code, for example—most of its target users are programmers. But why is OpenClaw so good at breaking out of the “programmer-only” circle? Because a lot more of its audience is ordinary people: office workers, everyday users. And in these scenarios, manus can cover them really well.
Right now, this kind of approach is more of a tragedy for startup teams in China. In the future, more teams will decide on day one whether to go overseas, further accelerating the loss of talent.