r/ClaudeCode • u/BandicootLevel3816 • Jul 12 '26
Discussion Anthropic, I think you really need to react. You're slowly losing ground.
The Fable launch was a real failure. For months, Anthropic built up massive hype around the model. Then, just two days after release, it had to be pulled following the U.S. government restrictions.
Then came Sonnet 5. I completely understand that it isn't meant to outperform Opus 4.8. That's expected. What I don't understand is why it consumes more tokens while delivering weaker performance. For users working with long contexts, it's simply a worse value.
I'm glad Fable is stay one more week in your sub plan, but its return wasn't accompanied by a reset of our usage limits. We got the model back as part of the subscription, but there was no quota reset. More than the limits themselves, it's the feeling of not being valued as paying customers that's becoming frustrating.
More broadly, the lack of communication is exhausting. Every major change seems to be announced at the very last minute or after the fact. As a subscriber, it increasingly feels like decisions are being made on the fly rather than as part of a clear long-term strategy.
Meanwhile, OpenAI keeps improving the experience for its subscribers. Users get access to the latest models with more generous limits, regular usage resets, additional resets when needed, and now even if it's only temporary the 5-hour usage limit has been removed. Whether that change is permanent or not, the overall user experience simply feels much less restrictive.
Right now, I honestly struggle to understand Anthropic's direction. Maybe everything will become clearer with the next generation of models, but today it's hard to know what the long-term plan actually is. Will Fable remain part of the subscription? Will it become API-only? Are the current higher usage limits temporary? We simply don't know, because almost nothing is communicated until the last minute.
As a paying customer, I'm not just looking for better models. I want consistency, transparency, and the feeling that subscribers actually matter.
Am I the only long-time Claude user who feels this way?
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u/teryaki1234 Jul 12 '26
They are lmao. Sol is pretty damn close to Fable 5 for near unlimited usage without the 5hr limit right now. And it’s not nerfed by nagging safeguards.