What makes the Opus 4.7 situation structurally different from routine model criticism is that Anthropic has offered no technical explanation for the performance gap its own users are documenting. Enterprise teams and AI engineers reported degradation within hours of release, and the has remained open with no resolution. A company confident in its release would respond to benchmark comparisons showing a 53-point drop on a reasoning task. The absence of that response is its own communication — and the developer community is reading it…