The way I look at it is that if I wasn't on HN, I would just assume the entire industry was 100% on board with all of this. There is a more than fair amount of pushback on this forum, which gives me a little bit of hope.
The only hope is that subsidised usage stops and somehow LLM’s can’t get any more cost effective from this point. No one is going to drop their guns and pick up a sword if they don’t have to.
Especially given the comments I see here and on other tech and programming forums, I hate the direction things are going.
I still have some hope this will all fade, but the damage done will be worse the longer it goes on, I think.