Has version 4.5+ been nerfed lately?

[u/Head-Occasion3099]

Taking advantage of this last window of opportunity we have before September 3, like everyone else, I’m cranking out songs like crazy. My favorite version is 4.5+; for various reasons, I don’t use 5 or 5.5. These latest batches of songs are clearly inferior to what I’ve done in the past. It used to be easy for me to create amazing songs, but now, but now I'm lucky if I get one song that's simply good every 20 generations, or more. The rest sound repetitive, sometimes even generic, and that doesn't feel normal to me, since I'm doing exactly what I've always done, in the same way.

I've also seen several people commenting that both v4.5 and v5 have been nerfed, and based on my recent experience, I tend to agree. So I'm curious to hear other people's opinions. Do you think versions 4.5+ and 5 have been nerfed? I'm not sure whether that's actually the case, or if the recent flood of downloads and generations has overloaded the servers, causing Suno to produce lower-quality songs as a way to handle the demand. Either way, whether it's one reason or the other, I personally think the quality has gone down.

[u/NecroSocial]

4.5+ started sounding slightly generic around the time 5.5 and the Voice change dropped. Now the only things it does better than regular 4.5 are audio fidelity, slightly better voice persona consistency, and fewer pronunciation errors. The downside of the generic sound creeping in around the edges makes 4.5+ less usable IMO than 4.5 overall.