I usually feel with chatgpt picking a model is like "Which of the three stooges would you like to talk to, curly, larry, or moe (or worse, curly joe)?" I usually only end up using o3 because gpt-40 is just that bad, so why would I ever want to talk to a lesser stooge?

If paying by API use it probably makes more sense to talk to a lesser stooge where possible, but for a standard pro plan I just find the lesser models aren't worth the time to use in frustration they cause.