I have been noticing a weird trend that after Opus 4.5 release, every new week my limits are getting used up faster and faster, while my usage was highest after the release (like first 7-8 days) and decreased pretty significantly afterwards. Now I am back to my usual usage of creating docs, tests, benchmarks etc. My weekly usage usually end up at 50-55% and rarely reaches 60%+ . Now I am reaching never before weekly usage limits like 77%(!!!!) with only 36 hours left before reset. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if its the same for everyone? I am on the $100 plan and don't use any mcp servers, skills or any other extra stuff either.

I do use agents a lot to look into large codebases and condense relevant information, and also for web searching and researching a topic, but I have been doing this the subagent feature was released. So it's either there's some bug in their recent updates (could be related to that instant compact feature or async agents or something else) or they are intentionally doing this.

EDIT: Adding this as some people are replying with stuff like "Opus drains more" and assuming I don't already know that... I's literally just draining more and more that it is just close to going back to opus 4.1 levels if this keeps going on for 2-3 more weeks. I don't have a problem using sonnet, but my problem with this situation is that they made me feel like Opus 4.5 on default was actually a thing but it was just a psychological manipulation trick to make me want the 'better' model and pay more for it (when already waste 30-50$ every month). I don't like this especially because I have been a customer for a long time, it's disrespectful and manipulative.