What I don't understand is, isn't this what "thinking" is for? It can be as verbose as it wants while it's thinking as far as I'm concerned, but why can't it keep the verbosity there? Why does it always spill into the actual response no matter what I do?

It's fine if it talks a lot to itself, I just don't want to read two pages of text for every question.

excellent, i dont need it to think, i need it to execute.