The Deespseek Team did Something to DS-v4-PRO to Decrease its Intelligence

I am not sure if you noticed this, but about 3-4 weeks, Deepseek-vs-PRO has become frustratingly dumb. When it launched, I used it to the point that I bought API credits for the first time in my life and stopped using my local models, which I had relied on for years.

When it launched, Deepseek was better than Gemini-3.1 PRO. However, Deepseek did something to the model, I am 99% sure. Either PRO is a smaller and distilled model, a quantized version, or a bad system prompt. I don't think it's the system prompt because I use the models via API on OpenWebui and LM Studio, and the models are nothing like the models when they launched.

Not only that, I can feel a strong resistance to follow the user prompts as the model increasingly ignore parts of the prompt and only execute what it wants, which keeps me go back and edit the prompt and instruct it what it should do and should not do. It's like I went back to working with my local 27B models! If I have to guess, I think the current Deepseek is a quantized version. Without the search and vision capabilities, what's the purpose of the PRO model, frankly?