One would think it is actually a useful thing both for the users and the LLM providers that are compute constrained at the moment..

I have also not observed it using less subagents than usual in regular chats. However, that could be due to limited use over a small timeframe.

but i have to say i'm not super shocked or surprised. simply from the perspective of: i don't think subagents are super great to use anymore! they go off and do a bunch of duplicate research, then come back and deliver a cheap facimile of the information the main agent often already knew.

that's definitely not always the case, but i feel like so so so often the main agent would be better just doing the research itself, seeing the things. it can sometimes mean wasting some context on dead-ends. which, in an open model where thinking is actually captured and editable in the api, is not a huge deal. but i don't think claude is capable of the same history editing, afaik, in part probably because it won't actually give you it's thinking trails.