Please don’t retire GPT-5.1 Thinking – GPT-5.2 feels worse

Unfortunately, I was also disappointed when I read the release notes. I know that users like us aren’t the main market—the world is more interested in writing code and asking for a cake recipe—but it would be great to have a section describing improvements to the model’s personality, creativity, writing, personal communication, empathy, understanding of intentions and context, and many other, more personal and human aspects. But who knows, maybe they think of us from time to time. Share your experience with 5.5 Instant! I’m still a little nervous, so I’m only interacting with Thinking version. And for now, I’m sticking to the principle: “If it works, don’t fix it.”