And on the flip side, the status page literally says:

> Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs.

keyword: intentionally

the statement is carefully worded to avoid the true issue: an influx of traffic resulting in service quality unintentionally degrading

I wasn't trying to say they intentionally do it.

I was trying to say that systemic issues (such as load capacity) seem to degrade the models in US working hours and has been noticed by a non-zero number of users (myself included).