And in the end, selling tokens ENCOURAGES the companies to sell more tokens. And how do they sell more tokens?

"Thinking" aka 'trust us bro!' without proof of thinking.

Making the model waste more tokens.

Advertisement: aka you pay to be advertised at.

Silently downgrading you and still faking models with the more costly tokens.

Intentional strategies to eat more tokens with no real gains.

Giving out almost-but-not-quite solutions that require another pull of the slo(t/p) machine.