I don’t think I’ve ever seen otherwise reasonable people go completely unhinged over anything like they do with Opus
That's what I thought today reading the comments in the Mozilla Thunderbolt thread today. Something about Mozilla absolutely sets people off.
I've seen a similar psychological phenomenon where people like something a lot, and then they get unreasonably angry and vocal about changes to that thing.
Usage limits are necessary but I guess people expect more subsidized inference than the company can afford. So they make very angry comments online.
For example, there is no evidence that 4.6 ever degraded in quality: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...