Is Claude becoming average?

# מהמקור

I’ve been a paid Claude user for a while and genuinely used to rave about it. Started on the Pro then upped it to Max after I was blown away with each new model. Initially, one of the biggest reasons I switched from ChatGPT was how Claude communicated. It matched my energy, was succinct, conversational, didn’t constantly affirm everything I said, and generally felt much more natural to work with. Lately I’m finding almost the opposite. Responses are routinely WAY longer than they need to be. It does the classic AI double-affirmation/preamble thing constantly, forgets or ignores preferences, and I find myself repeatedly telling it to just answer the question normally. I’ve explicitly set Profile Instructions telling it exactly how I want