This is repeated a lot however the benchmarks show sol 6.1 does well on time per task: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/releases/gpt-6-1-sol?in...

I don't mind speed actually, codex 5.2 was phenomenal for me, but everyone was whining about speed so OpenAI made 5.3 dumber and faster. Just go work on something else while the prompt runs!