Alright, often these are also air-to-air heat pumps. But even if the heat pump is supposed to bring the heat into the water, just think about it: if you need 6kW of heat, where does it come from? From your exhaust air? If the exhaust air heat pump only operates with a COP of 2, then it needs 3kW of heat from the exhaust air. Unfortunately, the heat capacity of air is very poor, so it has to suck in a lot of exhaust air. How is this replaced? By fresh, cold air from outside. This must also be heated with the help of the heating system so that it does not get cold inside. For this, more exhaust air is needed, and so on. The exhaust air heat pump is thus eventually working to produce enough warm air for itself so that it can even operate. At a certain outdoor temperature/required output, this simply collapses, and you basically only heat directly with electricity.