One way of reading this is an article about how good Anthropic's product is. "Look at how many serious flaws users have been willing to accept in order to keep using this thing"

IF they were light years ahead of competition, then that would make sense and would be a perfectly valid strategy. But it's not, so you're burning very important bridges that you may need in 3-4 months.

Model is the product, people will put up with anything as long as you're on the pareto frontier of performance x cost.

It also contextualizes the urgency of their attempts at regulatory capture. Once Chinese models have the same capabilities, there's almost no reason not to use them.

Work as long as you’re the only one (or the few) in town. Nad giving it for free (or nearly free). I have Cursor and when I use it, I keep it to auto, never caring about which model I use.