"You are absolutely right to push back!" ...

I am really really really trying to wrap my head around this. I am of course first discarding the obvious: "more tokens used is simply more tokens burned ..."

... read somewhere that it is partially a result of Claude now wanting to be ready for longer, more complex, mutli-step work. And this verbiage is the result.-

Whatever it is, they've got people begging for 4.6 back (wrt tone).-