There's a real hobbyist vs professional distinction with Claude Code. For professionals, including when I use it at work, we're generally super happy to have Claude spawn as many subagents as possible and burn more tokens to get a better result. Hobbyist users on a $20/month plan, though, generally want more conservative behavior.
It's hard for Anthropic to cater to both sets of users with one model.
It's hard for Anthropic to cater to both sets of users with one model.