> However, they will eventually get purchased by an AI company because the _product_ is great.

'Great' is in the eye of the beholder. For me, Cursor was one of the least-effective solutions of the many options (from Cursor and other AIDEs, to repo-centric web-based options like Jules, to CLI-based options like Claude Code) I evaluated a few months ago.

Did you keep a list of how each solution ranked? I'd be curious to see it (genuinely).