People say this, but I disagree. It's all one big slippery slope of zero value - the more a company can charge you for fewer features, the more they profit.

The parent is correct to identify that a lack of free market controls are what's destroying us here. You wouldn't have to pay out the nose like this if the fed didn't build and enforce monopolies for fun. But now we're here, after 20 years of Google's AdSense monopoly and Apple's App Store monopoly, throwing stones at OpenAI for ruining the fun.

Feels like we deserve this, everyone ignored the warning signs and pushed us way up the corporate escalation ladder.