I don’t understand most of the Opus 5 hate, except…

I am generally finding Opus 5 capable and useful. I do agree it’s wordy. I recently pasted its output into a new Fable chat and asked if it was making an overcomplicated mess of things. Fable’s response is on the nose: > It just sounds like it. The prose is doing a lot of self-narration — “the sentence that captures those,” the dramatic reveals — which makes a small change read like an epic. But strip the styling and the actual work list is: five text edits across two skill files, one new step plus a checklist box, optionally a friendlier error message in one script, and one file move. That’s small, and it’s well-ordered. > > So my verdict: list of tasks to accept cut — Which is, notably, almost the split Opus itself proposed — the plan is sound; the writing just wears a cape. Opus 5’s “writing wears a cape” 😂 Yup.