FWIW, I found things improved greatly once I turned off the memory feature of ChatGPT. My guess is that a lot of tokens were going towards trying to follow instructions from past conversations.
Very severe peanut allergy here - honestly go away with this crap of comparing your gluten allergy. I have to carry an epipen and worry about risking my life when I so much as eat food that was on the same table as baked goods that MIGHT have traces of peanut butter.
The paranoia has even trickled down to beginners too - paralysis by analysis of what they "should be learning" instead of spending time finishing projects. You see it in question threads everywhere - "Ruby vs Python?" "Node vs Rails?". Don't worry about learning languages/frameworks, pick a tool, and USE it to create something.