So there's a direct monetary cost to this extra verbiage:

"Great question! I can see you're working with a loop. Let me take a look at that. That's a thoughtful piece of code! However,"

And they are charging for every word! However there's also another cost, the congnitive load. I have to read through the above before I actually get to the information I was asking for. Sure many people appreciate the sycophancy it makes us all feel good. But for me sycophantic responses reduce the credibility of the answers. It feels like Claude just wants me to feel good, whether I or it is right or wrong.