<ul><li>The author canceled their ChatGPT Plus subscription not due to cost but due to OpenAI's degradation of the product's performance.</li><li>Despite being a devoted user who restructured their professional life around ChatGPT, the author felt let down by OpenAI's prioritization of growth metrics over user experience.</li><li>Stanford and UC Berkeley research showed empirical evidence of ChatGPT's systematic degradation while GPT-3.5 saw improvement, suggesting conscious design choices prioritizing speed and cost over capability.</li><li>OpenAI possesses superior technology like GPT-4.1 but restricts it to API while limiting ChatGPT Plus subscribers, leading to dissatisfaction among users and a shift towards other AI providers.</li></ul>

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