The thing is, for how long? Are they going to keep giving you "so much intelligence" for a "small" subscription dollar amount? When they really, for real, need to start making money to cover their costs, what do you think it's going to happen? Suddenly you will start having tasks that a "good enough" model is going to be fine.

These comments were also around for the Opus 4.5 release.

Prices for the same task (ARC-AGI-2) have since dropped by factor 10 if you compare to Opus 5.5 Low.