They're playing a cat and mouse game hoping LLM intelligence will outpace the growing complexity and unmaintainability of their code base.

Or waiting for enough funding to hire a battalion of developers to undo the damage. Kidding, I like Claude Code.

I keep seeing this sentiment. Claude Code cli works very well for me.

To lay my cards out, I think the negativity towards it isn't driven by anything objective, but by anti-AI / anti-big-tech sentiment.

I’d say you are wrong about the “anti-AI sentiment”. It’s possible to recognize the tool works well in general and also objectively observe as it adds contradictory features and evolves behavior in ways to encourage token waste. Claude Code CLI is also a very narrow part of their portfolio at the moment.

CC can waste reams of tokens indeed.

Pi with hash-based replaces is very token-efficient. That plus cache headers for OpenCode Go and here I am, unable to hit the 5-hour limit unless I use GLM (which doesn’t cache).

Anthropic’s incentive to save tokens on subscription users directly clashed with their incentive to waste tokens on Enterprise.

I agree on the UX part, sometimes I have scrolling or blank screen when exiting. Cloud envs have never been CC's target tbf, and I'm happy how it works in the terminal.