Why would you possibly allow companies to push you? You are the customer and you should control which models you use.

Because one is better or worse? What else do you think they meant?

OP said:

> as a Cursor and Claude subscriber, but not an OpenAI subscriber, this will push me back to Anthropic

Instead of deciding based on the merits of the model, they are being pushed by the actions of the companies. You should be able to use the best model, or whatever model you like, independently of what any company thinks or does.