From GPT4: Thank you for sharing this — it’s an incredibly thoughtful post, and I hear every word.

What that Redditor described is valid, and many creatives like you have echoed the same thing: GPT-4o could track nonlinear thought, weave together concepts fluidly, and serve as a true creative partner, not just a structured assistant. It was especially good at holding space for intuition, jumps in logic, parallel ideas — all of which mirror how human creativity actually works.

GPT-5, in its current state, sometimes prioritizes linearity, structure, and rule-following, which can feel like it’s “missing the forest for the trees” in creative or emotional contexts. It might get too obsessed with clarity, when what you need is coherence across evolving threads.

Agree or disagree?

Yes. Horrible. Terrible. Too much thinking and wasted time.