Sigh. This is a point in favor of not allowing free access to ChatGPT at all given that people are getting mad at GPT-4o-mini which is complete garbage for anything remotely complex... and garbage for most other things, too.
Just give 5 free queries of 4o/o3 or whatever and call it good.
Or a non-normie. Even while logged in, I had no idea what ChatGPT model it was using, since it doesn't label it. All the label says is "great for everyday tasks".
And as a non-normie, I obviously didn't take its analysis seriously, and compared it to Grok and Gemini 2.5. The latter was the best.