Looks like someone at OpenAI had the bright idea that they could push 'Christmas shopping season' apps 'assisted by ChatGPT' to 'help find the perfect gift' to paying users and everyone (including me) was really disgusted by having that garbage clogging up screen space.

Really just confirmed to me that long term, the best option for inference is just running an open source model on your own hardware, even if that's still expensive and doesn't generate as high quality output.