Exactly. It takes some... willingness to break through your own mindset (I don't want to call this "courage", but at times feels like it), to just tell the LLM, "I need <this and that> to be <like this>, make it so".

Two years ago, that was unthinkable. A year ago, it was a quick way to set a lot of tokens on fire. Today, well, I'm yet to find a thing Opus 5.5 doesn't do at least passable (and usually stellar) job on.