[dormento]

I think one reason might be that the "horizon" of developments related to optimization and new techniques is very short. Since we're still having recurrent breakthroughs, new things are being attempted every other week. Too much money and investor attention means competition is beyond fierce, and the turn of innovation follows. I think this plays a part into the weirdly timed cooldowns, terms of service, inconsistent quality etc.

It also mimics the goldrush for training content. Acquiring content (just like gauging LLM capabilities) is too fast for even lawyers to keep up. Society as a whole kinda threw their hands up and hoped things would just solve themselves instead of the world suing itself into oblivion. So the threshold of acceptability has moved accordingly.

I don't like it but it is what it is :/