Btw, as someone who agrees with your point, what’s the actual answer to this?

Of these, some are mostly obsolete: GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo are worse than GPT-4o in both speed and capabilities. o1 is worse than o3-mini-high in most aspects.

Then, some are not available yet: o3 and o4-mini. GPT-4.1 I haven't played with enough to give you my opinion on.

Among the rest, it depends on what you're looking for:

Multi-modal: GPT-4o > everything else

Reasoning: o1-pro > o3-mini-high > o3-mini

Speed: GPT-4o > o3-mini > o3-mini-high > o1-pro

(My personal favorite is o3-mini-high for most things, as it has a good tradeoff between speed and reasoning. Although I use 4o for simpler queries.)

It depends on how you define "capability" since that's different for reasoning and nonreasoning models.

Whats the problem, for the layman it doesnt actually matter, and for the experts, its usually very obvious which model to use.