Switching from xhigh to medium roughly halved the time it took on a task for me. It's still a very verbose and long thinker, even so. It's hard to say for sure

Switching from xhigh to medium roughly halved the time it took on a task for me. It's still a very verbose and long thinker, even so. It's hard to say for sure what the impact on output quality is at medium, but it seemed pretty close.