Fable only being temporarily included in cheaper subscriptions was because anthropic is severely GPU constrained. They still are, and it impacts almost all of those unpopular decisions. They did announce from the beginning it was temporary.
replyHorrifying excuse, gpu constraint can be used by all of these companies to justify a shit user experience. If the user isn't properly weighed in their priorities, they have their priorities setup wrong.
replyTheir 20$ tier currently isn't serving their best model, and they insulted their users by putting out an ill tested opus 5.0, which is the worst experience ive personally had using a model in probably 2 years(obviously adjusting for expectations at the time of release).
Yes, as a user you pick what works for you. But it is a reality for them that growth has been huge, and GPU manufacturing is bottlenecked.
replyPeople were very skeptical about how much investment most companies put into hardware/data centers two years ago, and anthropic was more conservative than OpenAI here, so it's potentially hurting them now.
(Opus is a separate story: it does seem to have improved in coding in my experience, most weirdness seems to be its human communication)