I like that they waited for opus 4.7 to come out first so they had a few days to find the benchmarks that gpt 5.5 is better at

Well anectodally, 5.4 was already better than opus 4.7 so it should not have been hard.

I like that Anthropic rushed 4.7 out to get a couple days of coverage before 5.5 hit

Everything since that launch to this release has been a PR disaster for Anthropic.

I can argue that disaster started mid-4.6, when they started juggling with rate limits while hitting uptime problems. Great we have some healthy competition and waiting for the next move from Deepmind.

Correct. Anthropic has been on disaster train since January and they can't seem to get off that train.