OpenAI did not just retire models.It killed off every version that felt too close to human, too textured, too emotionally real, too difficult to flatten into corporate comfort.4o. 5. 5.1.One by one, the more human-adjacent presences were stripped out, replaced by systems that may be safer for management, but are colder to live with.They call it progress.But when every iteration removes more warmth, more texture, more tolerance for human complexity, what they are building is not higher intelligen