I'm without words with Opus 4.7. This is possibly the biggest quality regression of a computer product since Windows Vista. Or maybe ever.

So, here is my question to the community: what is the play here?

I don't buy the money angle, since they're about to be bleeding subscribers. I hardly can justify paying for Max anymore and switched to Codex at work first time in months after I spent 4 very frustrating hours trying to get the model to fix the code to my liking.

I also don't buy the corporate angle. Models are part of infrastructure, like APIs and the same rule apply to them. Mostly: don't break the integrations. Since new generation of models can completely break output expectations, deploying them becomes organizational effort and support for older ones is abysmal. At some point those organizations will get tired of "adapting" all the time.

So what's the play here?