The default outputs are considerably shorter even in thinking mode. Something that helped me get the thinking mode back to an acceptable state was to switch to the Nerd personality and in the traits customization setting tell it to be complete and add extra relevant details. With those additions it compares favorably to o3 on my recent chat history and even improved some cases. I prefer to scan a longer output than have the LLM guess what to omit. But I know many people have complained about verbosity so I can understand why they may have moved to less verbiage.