OpenAI announced updates to GPT-5.6 Sol for paying users and expanded free access to GPT-5.6 Luna this week. Sol gets a new slider for controlling reasoning depth, tighter answers, and fewer factual errors on legal, medical, and financial prompts. Luna becomes the default model for free and Go users, with unlimited text chats and a new Think button rolling out next week. The company frames this as putting more intelligence in more hands. Complaints about Sol include memory and logic degradation, as GPT 5.6 forgets instructions given a few messages earlier, and lazy answers that pad responses with hedges or produce half-finished code blocks. Users also complain about transparency, as model behavior shifts overnight with no announcement; a public changelog would let users know what changed and when. The article argues that a basic reasoning model should not be treated as a luxury item, as students, hobbyists, and people who cannot afford a subscription still need such tools. Expanding Luna to unlimited text chats for free users is a step toward closing the gap between those who can pay for capability and those who cannot, and it should be treated as the baseline, not a favor. The business case for free access is that users who get a fair experience without a subscription are more likely to stick around, recommend the product, and eventually pay for more.