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.

Good points - i'll definitely look into switching - just wanted to reflect on what's causing it to stay so popular.