Anthropic is making the exact same mistake OpenAI did: lack of focus. Release, release, release, all good apps, all full of bugs. This is a massive mess and people aren't talking enough about how bad all of this is.
BUt what it really shows is there's no vision. If you had a vision and coherent strategy you'd concentrate resources - not dilute them across a myriad of projects.
To be fair, the vision isn't achievable yet. More training data is needed. These projects spring up to try and compel users into offering up training information in the niches that need more data. They don't really have to be good, or even long-lasting, if they satisfy the goal of getting the data sought after.
I think you're missing the larger point: software is about to be insanely easy to generate. Anthropic is churning out new products because they can basically spin these things up in a week, so there's really no "cost" to them in a traditional strategic sense.
The US had the atom bomb for a few years before anyone else had it. Anthropic has mythos now before anyone else - they are probably using it to churn out as many software clones as possible before someone else catches up.
BUt what it really shows is there's no vision. If you had a vision and coherent strategy you'd concentrate resources - not dilute them across a myriad of projects.