And how to get to the old verbose mode then...?

Hit ctrl+o

Wait so when the UI for Claude Code says “ctrl + o for verbose output” that isn’t verbose mode?

That is more verbose — under the hood, it’s now an enum (think: debug, warn, error logging)

Considering the ragefusion you're getting over the naming, maybe calling it something like --talkative would be less controversial? ;-)

ctrl + o isn't live - that's not what users want, what users want is the OPTION to choose what we want to see.

Casually avoiding the first question

Because obviously the answer is no.