You are very much not alone, and I don't think we're all getting dumber -- I kept using opus 4.5 all through the nonsense that was 4.7, 4.8, and 5, and kept having a good time :)
I think we just need to decouple "doing better on benchmarks" and "actually more useful to me", since they've clearly diverged
I think we just need to decouple "doing better on benchmarks" and "actually more useful to me", since they've clearly diverged