I'm making more of a pragmatic point. While ethics of companies are important, i'm still using OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Apple etc, so I definitely accept a trade-off between morality and ease-of-use.

Currently i've found Ollama to have the best intuitive experience for trying new models. Once i've tried those models and decide on something to use for a project, I can deploy them, and not need to use a UI again.

I'll be trying out the other options in this thread, but my point is that ease of use is going to triumph over the other points the original post made, and some of the alternatives mentioned in the original post miss why Ollama is so popular.

Keep in mind that as the post says, the model you’re trying via ollama may not be the model you asked for! And the performance may be subpar and not reflect the model true performance. Otherwise, I agree they offer an easy and polished product and that explains why they are so popular, besides their personal connections having resulted in their OpenAI partnership.