Interesting observation. My experience with o1 has been much more mundane. Sometimes I get the response I wanted, sometime it hallucinates, often times it writes buggy code. I've been experiencing this since ChatGPT was first released.
I actually originally wrote off the o1 model. Another thing I have found it's good at is finding bugs in a ton of code. Give it ten coding files, and a stack trace, it can find the bug.