The last time I called for a briefing it seemed like 20 minutes of me saying, "yep...uh-huh...ok....I see..." while being read a laundry list of nearly every TAF and METAR along the flight.
You used to talk to someone who briefed the same area all day. Last time I called it seemed the first time he looked at ANY of the weather in the area was while he read it to me.
I may be suffering from small sample size, but my most recent phone calls to the briefer resulted in MUCH longer conversations with me receiving LESS valuable information during it. So far, not impressed.