Time to jump ship.
I have noticed 5.3 in xtra high was a turd today. High used to be enough for most of my use cases. xhigh used to surprise me. Now it's incapable of following the very first instructions.
I just hope open source models get as good as last few month's top models before the enshittification has gone too far.
Kimi K2.5 has been great in my experience.
Exactly. Open models are a wrench in monetization plans. If a free model exists, and it’s ad free, then why pay for the proprietary model that comes with ads? It’s a worse product! Presumably you’d just use the better experience at that point
Qwen3.5 (-plus, which isn’t actually open to be fair) is surprisingly decent I’ve found.