Seconding everything that's been said in this thread so far. The agentic coding is much laggier and overall unpredictable. I'm waiting 5-10 minutes sometimes for a response. It also seems to eat up my usage limits much faster.
I'm seeing the same issues with authentication. I have to sign in to Claude multiple times per day.
And I agree that hiding the thinking while it's happening leads to a lot of wasted time and tokens because I have no idea if the agent has lost its way.
Appreciate you looking into this and hopefully releasing a 26.4.1 to address these issues!