GPT-5.6 Sol users report silent fallback to 5.5-mini

ChatGPT Plus subscribers report that GPT-5.6 Sol High/Medium is silently routing to GPT-5.5-mini, producing shallow, instant responses with poor context retention. Some users also report the opposite: GPT-5.6 feels massively upgraded without announcement.
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