Sorry if I’m not getting it, but what was wrong exactly? Is the issue that it merely put “-- put the query here” in the reply, instead of repeating it again?

If so, I’m not sure I’d even consider that a problem. If the goal is for it to give you a query to run, and you ask it “let’s do it in a transaction”, it’s a reasonable thing for it to simply inform you, “yeah you can just type begin first” since it’s assuming you’re going to be pasting the query in anyway. And yeah, it does use fewer tokens, assuming the query was long. Similar to how, if it gave me a command to run, and I say “I’m getting a permission denied”, it would be reasonable for it to say “yeah do it as root, put sudo before the command”, and it’s IMO reasonable if it didn’t repeat the whole thing verbatim just with the word “sudo” first.

But if the context was that you actually expected it to run the query for you, and instead it just said “here, you run it”, then yeah that’s lazy and I’d understand the shock.