Instead of adding a settings option to hide the filenames they hide them for everyone AND rewrite verbose mode, which is no longer a verbose mode, but the way to see filenames, thus breaking everyone's (depending on these) workflows for...... what exactly?

If they tried to create a better product I'd expect them to just add the awesome option, not hide something that saves thousands of tokens and context if the model goes the wrong way.

Again, the framing is simply not sensible. Why would they want to break "everyone's" workflow ("everyone" including the people working at Anthropic, who use the product themselves, which should give us some pause)? Why would you ever want to make a bad decision?

The answer in both cases is: You don't. If it happens, it's because you sometimes make bad decisions, because it's hard to make good decisions.