> there's no excuse for not working directly with the APIs
You mean other than the fact that it costs money?
Certainly, but GPT3.5 is effectively free via the API, especially considering you have to hit $5 or whatever to even be as expensive as ChatGPT (and it's even relatively difficult to rack up a high bill on GPT4 now that they have token rate limits). The problem of general and global access to unrestricted LLMs is a very, very serious question, but here it's largely a question of engineers and, since it's relatively difficult to spend more than a Netflix subscription via the API, I'm assuming this is conceivably in budget.
There is one. OpenAI has not yet given you access (waitlist).