I’ve been using OpenAI’s products daily, and the GPT-5 rollout honestly feels like a downgrade in some critical areas.
Before GPT-5, we had:
GPT Agent – for multi-step autonomous tasks
Deep Search – for truly in-depth web queries
Persistent tools and richer workflows that actually saved time
Now? They’re gone. And there’s been no clear explanation why.
What’s the point of releasing a “new, more powerful” model if we lose the exact tools that made the previous versions so practical for real work? Reasoning upgrades are great, but they’re useless if we have to constantly micromanage the model because the automation tools have been stripped out.
If this is a temporary rollback, users deserve a timeline. If it’s permanent, we deserve to know why. Power users built workflows around these features — removing them without warning isn’t just frustrating, it’s disruptive.
Has anyone seen any official statement from OpenAI explaining why GPT-5 launched without core features that already existed?