Has AI alignment gone too far with content refusals and moral lectures?

I’ve been using different LLMs a lot lately and I’ve noticed the newer versions of ChatGPT and Claude seem a lot quick to refuse things or give me long ethical disclaimers even when I ask fairly normal questions. It feels like the safety tuning has gotten stricter over time. On one hand I get why companies do it, but on the other it sometimes makes the models feel less useful for creative, exploratory, or even just honest conversations.