@cwebber FWIW I think they’ve been becoming less sycophantic over time. One of the overwhelming complaints I’ve seen over the past year is about the incessent plattitudes, and the model vendors are definitely working out how to tone that down, to the point that “you’re absolutely right” already starts to feel like a dated reference.
Of course they continue to be servile, they’re just becoming less blatanly sycophantic.