No? LLMs have been outputting more text ever since chain of thought became a thing, and multiple researchers shown thinking traces are outright confabulations, only serving as more memory for latent processing. The tool calls too I believe have gotten more frequent since labs reward tool use regardless of practical value. The net effect is more total intermediate bullshit, even with more results.

OpenAI's harness can solve frontier math problems but the model alone is still a clofabulation machine. Its "intuition" did for a while get better from sheer scale, but we reached the optimum frontier for non-thinking models years ago.