I absolutely do have an ideological viewpoint. I hope i haven’t come across as trying to hide that.

One of my beliefs, call it ideology if you like, is that api cost is much more representative of real cost of this stuff. Good luck switch to local models the same week everyone else decides to switch because subscription prices went up 5x… it’s going to cost more than $600.

Anyway, like it or not, you are giving $200/month to fund another ideology. One that looks to me like a leopards-eating-faces type of ideology.