It's a good reminder that OpenAI isn't incentivized to have users spend a lot of time on their platform. Yes, they want people to be engaged and keep their subscription, but better if they can answer a question in few turns rather than many. This dynamic would change immediately if OpenAI introduced ads or some other way to monetize each minute spent on the platform.

the classic 3rd space problem that Starbucks tackled; they initially wanted people to hang out and do work there, but grew to hate it so they started adding lots of little things to dissuade people from spending too much time there