It’s not a 100% fix, but with concise output style on, it’s much better.

I found having a reminder at every turn through the UserPromptSubmit [1] hook helped with taming the word salad from 5.

Hopefully the output from vanilla 5.5 is as good as they claim. I’ll try out later tonight.

[1] https://kizi.to/claude-talks-too-much/