it is already available in azure : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/c...

I hope this doesn't become the only way to access the underlying model.

As a power user: - I know exactly when I would like to work with any given model! - I like to switch models during a conversation for various purposes.

I would find it a significant downgrade to no longer be able to access individual models.

I would also find it very neurodivergent-hostile! It's more neurodivergent-affirming to understand that having different forms of cognition available is wonderful, and should be subsumed because it's too hard to figure out which cognition to work with.