I don't know that I'd say they nerfed it exactly. They made some tradeoffs you don't like. The old GPT4 had more personality, was more flexible in its respons

I don't know that I'd say they nerfed it exactly. They made some tradeoffs you don't like. The old GPT4 had more personality, was more flexible in its responses and would go on for longer. The new GPT4 is more consistently helpful and does a better job of presenting small-form answers neatly, but the alignment has definitely had an impact for a lot of use cases.