ChatGPT - the king of gaslighting and lecturing

I have become increasingly frustrated with ChatGPT because it has become incredibly non-committal and bland. It responds in generic terms, and does not address the specifics of the question. It offers unsolicited views and goes into lecturing mode. This happens with anything that might be semi controversial. Here is sample question (I forced one sentence response to avoid lecturing) Did China bootstrap its economic growth by stealing IP from the West. One sentence answer only.