> Might i suggest that you perhaps just don't see the improvement as clearly when comparing iterations that are fairly close together?

No, you can't. Because you invalidate your argument by adding later:

> Personally i do see 5.5 as much better

It has to be one or the other.

Either each minor release Anthropic farts is a major improvement from what came before, or I don't see much difference because it has been very little time in between releases. Holding both arguments as true would require me to be excessively apologetic for a company that desires a 2T IPO.

And to be clear, I do think that there is an argument that not much time has passed since Opus 4.6 and Chat GPT 5.3 Codex days.

Part of this conundrum may be because the models reached a good enough point for software development. Maybe walking 80% of the way was easier than the final 20%. I am nowadays more excited about how cheap models can be useful for it (hence my positive remark about Haiku 5.5 and Chinese models in general).