I think people were fine with OpenAI demos. They were less fine with not actually ever releasing the demoed tech.

To clarify, by "doing the opposite" I mean OpenAI releasing GPT-4.5, a non-reasoning model that does worse on benchmarks (but supposed to be qualitatively better). People shit on OpenAI hard for doing that.

I liked their announcements and demos and continue to like them.

How did you measure “nobody” liked OpenAI announcements?