>An electronic Siren's Song if you will.

Notifications on your smartphone that's always on you are way better for that purpose, than on a device that's tied to your desk.

Add Gacha mechanics for +100% extra damage.

Devices tied to your desk are actually very good for tech detox.

So if getting you hooked was OpenAI's goal with this, they definitely missed by a 1000 miles.

Agree, but there's also the psychological impact of having spent over 200 smackers on this thing and then letting it go unused lol

This only works if you can get people to spend over $200, which is the part I'm skeptical of.

But who knows, maybe I'm overestimating people's intelligence.

That's the key, a physical object is much more easily made part of a devs identity.

Projecting a hacker image has become very fashion based. e.g., some devs love their clickity-clackity keyboards with LEDs, others have those all-blacks ones with nothing on the keys.