I liked the GLM models until 5.3 and this site seems to explain perhaps some of the reason why.

5.3 introduced tons of claudish babble, really a massive step down in its communication style.

It's because they distilled Opus 5.

	▲	nullc 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or because they want it to not be obvious when they're rerouting requests to Opus for the purpose of harvesting traces from it. :(