The reviews on reddit are overwhelmingly negative. There's no way their QA/UX team didn't catch this drop in performance. The cost savings must be substantial to push this through in spite of this.
"Sam Altman predicts AGI in 2025" - https://christiankromme.nl/sam-altman-predicts-agi-in-2025/
"Sam Altman says ‘we know how to build AGI’" - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337106/sam-altman-says-o...