Are Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B making other ~30B models obsolete?

Have Qwen 3.6 27B and Qwen 3.6 35B basically made most of the older ~30B models irrelevant? They seem to beat stuff like Qwen coder 30B, GPT OSS 20B, Gemma models, especially for coding and agent workflows. At this point I’m not really finding a reason to keep the older ones around. Anyone still using them for something specific? submitted by /u/nikhilprasanth [link] [comments]