For months the loudest complaints in consumer AI have been about money and access: the meter, the rate limit, the price rise, the paid feature that quietly vanished. This week the grievance moved somewhere less obvious and more interesting — the writing . Across the big subreddits, heavy users of Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT converged on the same complaint, in almost the same words: the models have started sounding cleverer and answering worse. More verbose, more performative, more jargon, more h...