'Titan' by Ron Chernow suggests that Rockefeller and the other magnates of the early 1900s ran into similar dynamics when it came to the emerging industrial age. Everything was deflationary ... entrepreneurs were often chasing profits all the way to forcing negative margin projects due to radical oversupply of raw materials. They argued for a monopoly -- in part -- because it kept profits high and forecastable.

I see similar dynamics emerging in the open source software / AI side of things. As Jeff Booth says, products eventually are priced at their marginal cost of production. And software doesn't have a high marginal cost to produce. And if there are multiple clients out there, there is effectively no moat to protect value ... very similar to a parallel railroad track laid by a competitor.

I am not sure what the model is that can fix this (or maybe it will never be fixed.) Until the market is WILLING to pay for a differentiated product/client that adds material value to their lives, then this is the natural progression of creative destruction of free markets.

Obviously not rooting for that outcome, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s ... I think you need to focus on what people NEED and a twitter-esque client isn't doing it for me ... at least not relative to the other clients that are out there doing something very similar.