Perhaps my enterprise cynicism is not warranted, but my other comments refer to accurate descriptions of reality: Anthropic wants to place their opaque system between you and any computational task that you wish to perform. Do you contest this or think it is not accurate?

Why do you think that Anthropic wants fewer tokens inputted and outputted?

Because they sell subscriptions and tokens cost them compute, and their margin lives in the difference between what your subscription pays in and what you cost them in compute.

They have also been supply constrained on compute and if users cost them less in compute they can more subscriptions and less customer frustration.

I agree they want you to have a subscription. That doesn't mean they aren't aligned with their subscribers.