It's just like subscription based MMORPGs that delay you as much as possible every step of the way because that's the way they can extract more money from you. If you pay for the tokens it's not in their benefit to give you the answer directly.

Do you have to put it in a build/execute mode (separate from a planning mode) to allow it to move on? I use opencode, and that's how it works.

Weird. I never had that issue when writing code.