This is part of why I switched to Grok 4.5

I don't need more powerful models, I need one that responds fast enough that my attention doesn't wander to other tasks. Grok 4.5 is so fast I can just use it in-band without swapping to other tasks.

Slower than Opus 4.8, which was already miserably slow, is indeed a step in the wrong direction.

for you, I am in general not constrained by the speed of models since I parallelize. For me autonomy and accuracy are paramount above all else.