The AI is so super intelligent that it can't optimize itself and instead burns through tokens needlessly. The people programming the AI are so good that they can write long winded articles about how to optimize their AI but can't get the AI to do these things by default.
It's all so tiring. I care less and less about Claude every single day because of the usage caps and the constant optimizing that has to be done. The whole point of AI was to get past this type of bullshit. They've failed miserably at their jobs.