The real problem that OpenAI had was that their model naming was completely incomprehensible. 4.5, o3, 4o, 4.1 which is newer than 4.5. It was a complete clusterfuck. The blowback on that issue seems to have led them to misidentify the issue, but nobody was really asking for a single router model. Having a number of sequentially numbered and clearly labelled models is not actually a problem.
I just don't understand how this happens. Either there's literally no product management at a cross-product level or there is and they had a meeting where this plan was discussed and someone approved it.
I'm not sure which would be more shocking, especially considering it's a decade old multi-billion dollar company paying top salaries.
