I don't think so, because so called nerfing manifests itself in ridiculous code quality, or even in failing to do a comprehensive code analysis which results in "actually there is a bug in the implementation i've just done because this flow has 5 steps and i didn't bother to review them all before confidently laying down my plan", and this can happen 4 times in a row during a session.

This is definitely not about dealing with the frontier of AI. I wasn't part of the nerfing chord, but Astra changed my mind. Quality got me to upgrade from Pro x5 to Pro x20 on launch day. A couple of days later was dumb af, horrendous code quality etc...

Something fishy, or at least unethical is going on. Not sure it impacts API users though.