Reddit thread with 247 comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wtgv3z/dev_day_l/
Aside from that I'm not sure what was "disastrous" - maybe the lack of a new model release to compete with the just-released Claude Opus 5.5?
'backlash' is underwhelming. They single handedly murdered 5.3 codex which was great by making it slooow and duuumb, and pushed people over to their new ones. 5.6 was a decent candidate but it was so slooooow.
And then double or triple the cost for Plus and Pro by nerfing their effective power? I never looked for an alternative faster. They really screwed the pooch.
Been quite happy with deepseek v4.1 flash, muse 1.3 and haiku 5.5.
- Dots. People don't understand it. Their presentation didn't explain it properly at all. Additionally, many people thought it's stupid, and that the cutesy mascots are dystopian.
- Voice mode didn't work in their presentation. The demo failed.
- 200$ plan goes 20x -> 10x usage. 500$ plan introduced, 25x usage. The contrast is stark.
- "Ultrafast": 8x pricing on subscription plan (6x API). That's 80$ input, 400$ output, 100$ cache write. Hello?! Additionally, since it generates 8x faster, it consumes your quota 8x faster. Per wall-clock minute, it's 64x more usage spend per minute of generating. People report that on the 500$ plan, their weekly usage is gone in 40-100 minutes.
- People believe gpt-6.1-sol was planned to be released as astra-minor, but OpenAI renamed it at the last possible time, because gpt-6-sol is a disaster (this I can get behind)