Comparison of the S​₈ parameter in the different bins and different models. The color scheme follows the one introduced in Figure 7 for the cosmological parameter inference. Different cosmic shear results are shown in teal: DES + KiDS (Dark Energy Survey and Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration 2023), DES (Amon et al. 2022), and HSC (Dalal et al. 2023). Results from the cosmic microwave background (Planck20) are shown in black. The gray area represents the 68% and 95% confidence levels from G24. Our main result is that no matter what the considered model is, adding a degree of freedom in the power spectrum decreases the value of S​₈ to make it compatible with the cosmic shear value.