People seem to miss the humanity of previous GPTs from my understanding. GPT5 seems colder and more precise and better at holding itself together with larger contexts. People should know it’s AI, it does not need to explain this constantly for me, but I’m sure you can add that back in with some memory options if you prefer that?

I agree. I think it's a classic UX progression thing to be removing the "I'm an AI" aspect, because it's not actually useful anymore because it's no longer a novel tool. Same as how GUIs all removed their skeuomorphs because they were no longer required.