What's refreshing about it given the context that 4.7 was a regression in many ways (including as measured by benchmarks)?

4.8 is also 2x more expensive for a "modest" performance bump. How refreshing.

This is just cope.

> 4.8 is also 2x more expensive for a "modest" performance bump. How refreshing.

Where are you seeing it's 2x more expensive? https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

Price hasn’t changes at all, though.