Welcome to the echo chamber.

In my experience, the only people who think CHI publishes great papers are the people publishing at CHI.

(Disclosure: I've published at CHI a few times myself. I'm done with it.)

A company recruited me at CHI for an internship/collaboration and implemented portions of my research into their product, so it isn't a complete echo chamber.

Cool! What company and product? I'd love to see a positive example.