Sadly Grok also started doing that recently. Previously it was much more to the point but now got extremely wordy. The question in the end is a key giveaway that something under the hood has changed when the version number hasn’t

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a feature to drive engagement.

of course it is. this seems so obvious to me.

I even wrote into chatGPTs "memory" to NOT ASK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS, because it's crazy annoying imo. it respects it about 40% of the time I'd say