Anything coming from OpenAI is an automatic "Hell, no!" for me.

Use z.ai then. No need to knee jerk react

Maybe Droid? It's pretty decent. Crush is good too

well love or hate them, their service is at least reliable

So is McDonalds.

...as long as you don't ask for ice cream.

I hope you appreciate the irony of saying that in a thread where we are discussing that OpenAI's main competitor is engaging in blatantly anti-consumer behavior.

There is no irony: both of them are bad (for different reasons, but bad) and this is not a matter of choosing the "lesser evil". Both of them should be treated as toxic and rejected as strongly as possible.