What happened to the Google Keyword Planner?

it is horrible now. the 'searches per month' stat gives a stupidly large range. if i type in a keyword and search, it will come back with nothing, '100-1k', '1k-10k', '10k-100k' or searches per month. it used to be pretty accurate, down the the hundreds. sometimes it has the audacity to say '100k-1M'. why is it so bad now?

example pic below

This is because Google wants it to be bad for SEOs.

Google wants to sell Adwords clics, that's its primary source of revenue. When it's to easy to know which keywords could be profitable (partially based on the number of monthly searches), it's bad for them. So they get pretty creative to prevent people from making money with SEO, without paying a dime of adwords.

That's also why you see the [Secure Search] on most of your visits.

I saw a trick to be able to see the number of searches per month like before on twitter. You have to set up an adwords campaign, add your keyword, and then you'll be able to see the numbers.

I don't know what to think about this.

Great.
My long tail pro suddenly becomes shitty, due to the fact they data-mine from GKP

this is because GOO... has no clue ... kidding

and ist really crap. the steps are to big 100-1k ; 1k-10k i mean thats a fucking difference if a kw is 1100 or 9900

due to some recent changes this type of things happen now a days.