I miss the old Claude Code

Anthropic’s Claude Code, once praised for concise, focused assistance, has become increasingly verbose and prone to over-engineering after the release of Opus 5, prompting users to add the Concise Output Style to curb its chatty output. The tool’s recent updates have introduced bloated tooling—such as a reworked /doctor command that audits prompts instead of confirming setup—and aggressive marketing that distracts from core functionality, reducing overall productivity.