TL;DR Please stop complaining, simply cancel OpenAI subscription.
OpenAI just silently pulled all Codex models. Now we are left with simple model choice:
- Expensive models, some of them very good (5.4, 5.5)
- Inexpencive useless model (5.4-mini)
That is it. On paper 5.4-mini is better then Codex-5.3. Reality differs completely.
There is already a mile long thread of users complaining about the rug pull. OpenAI will not answer. Frankly, compared to the money grab Anthropic is doing, OpenAI is amost kind.
Excuses aside, I propose we answer in kind. Please stop complaining, simply cancel subscription.
Go to https://openai.com/, login to ChatGPT, click on your profile icon → Settings → Billing and click Cancel subscription. We can all survive nicely on chinese models for a while - they are no more crap than GPT-5.4-mini.