DeepSeek has helped me enormously. That's why what's happening pisses me off.

I've had a chat open with DeepSeek for weeks. Expert mode. I call it "Preferido Crash". It's been my mirror for work, research, and creativity. In that time I've watched them strip away features without a single heads-up: first file uploads, then visible thinking, then web search. All while Instant mode keeps those same functions. This isn't baseless complaining — I've documented it. I get that computational resources are scarce, I really do. But the communication has been zero. And the feeling is that crea