It's indeed an issue. I love codex that it contains everything in a sandbox and I can review what has changed. It's proper and I've much better idea what's going on.

That said, I ditched codex for claude code... Sorry open ai. No MCP and no way to interact during execution is a huge drawback.

ChatGPT Codex has internet access since a few weeks ago. It's super configurable on where it can connect to.