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OpenAI partially acknowledged a GPT-6 Astra downgrade, and separately stopped letting people renew the $200 plan
A user posted screenshot evidence across r/OpenAI (155 upvotes) and r/ChatGPT that the Astra quality drop several people reported days ago was real and was partially fixed, arguing the pattern is release, wait for benchmarks and subscriptions, then quietly degrade. In the same 24 hours a separate r/OpenAI thread reports the $200 plan no longer offering renewal through the App Store, forcing a move to $100 where usage headroom dropped from 92% to 51% instantly. Both point at the same constraint, and the practical suggestion from the thread is worth taking seriously: benchmark suites should retest shipped models on a schedule rather than once at launch.
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