I totally agree on the way that the cost of using LLMs is hidden. Even though I could easily afford it (and many cannot), I am not willing to pony up real money for technology that is of absolutely no use for me -- other than as a fancy code assistant.

I also agree that there is a lot more chrome in the UI for Mathematica. Some of the functionality is useful, of course, and I am happy to have a lot of the improvements made over time. And, I guess one person's chrome is another person's essential service.

So far, it seems that most of the fancy UI stuff can be turned off, so that is good. I would rather see some of the bugs getting fixed, and some functionality that would be generally useful, such as split windows, implemented. Given limited developer resources, in my opinion, there are better things to do than replacing monospaced code text with something else.

Except that they do not work. It is deeply misleading to advertise this feature when it does not work without paid API account. It is dishonest to hide the extra costs from users so that you can generate hype for your product.

Perhaps instead of spending time on hyping, Wolfram people could actually provide usable documentation for their users.

And by the way, the updated interface of 13.3 is much worse than previous versions. Either Wolfram is now targeting high-school students as their main users or they have no idea what users need.