There is a lot of value to say engineers doing tradeoff studies using these tools as a huge head start.
Agreed about Google, accuracy is a little better on the paid version but the reports are still frustrating to read through. They're incredibly verbose, like an undergrad padding a report to get to a certain word count.
"Be terse" is a mandatory part of the prompt now.
Either it's to increase token counts so they can charge more, or to show better usage growth metrics internally or for shareholders, or just some odd effects of fine tuning / system prompt ... who knows.