They don't give you the actual reasoning, they use a smaller model to produce a slop summary. (They don't want you seeing all the MITM stuff anthropic injects into the chain of thought)
> Opus decided I was looking to pick out exactly two of the issues.
In this specific case, does it matter if you get the raw reasoning vs a "slop summary"? I bet both would tell you that Opus locked into two issues no matter how bad the slop summary is.