This is it.

It's because they need subscription money and interaction data and so keeping a version bump in the wings to stop the bleeding from your competitor's version bump is the logical thing to do. It has nothing to do with RSI.

Maybe process maturity too.

Like think about a software org with good CI/CD versus one without. The mature org can do consistent incremental releases because each one is safe and low overhead, the messier org will do fewer big releases because each release requires a big effort on its own.

As model developers mature we might expect to see more frequent point releases rather than the big bang evolutions.

Probably one of the factors. Signed up to openai pro a few days ago, deciding between openai and anthropic, then sonnet 5.5 was released and am wondering whether I made a mistake.

Luckily it's not a mistake as now we have access to . . . dots.

(and sol 6.1, it seems)

jokes on me, I pay for all the subscriptions.