As long as they have the best model they can afford to lose goodwill.

People who don't wanna spend too much on LLMs and are trying to optimize whats subsidized even on the Max plans are customers Anthropic is honestly better off without.

That's like saying as long as expensive cars are faster than cheaper cars, the expensive manufacturer can afford losing goodwill.

We have yet to see any company use Fablr to increase their profits. Until and unless you can increase your profits with the expensive models, it makes no sense to pay for them.

IOW, the expensive AI providers only draw is goodwill.