I am not sure. I think you have articulated a number of causes for concern very well. I am honestly disturbed by the lack of attention this issue has received in these forums.
Furthermore, I am even more dismayed by the latest “May 24 Version” which appears to actually be a further step in the wrong direction.
I am observing even greater loss of reasoning between the May 12 and May 23 version! Hard to overstate how frustrating this is! The May 23 version in many respects appears to follow instructions more poorly than GPT3.5 at this point and consistently fails to solve basic logic problems.
@#$!