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I don't know any people willing to pay a reasonable subscription. User uptake will be nowhere near 8x is a few years.
I have an entire team of colleagues who pay a subscription for it, and a girlfriend who pays for it also. She has Microsoft copilot at work and its useless, so she pays for chat gpt and it helps her deliver way more work much more quickly.
But I understand everyones milage may vary. I just see amazing value myself.
By the way, since we are on this topic - yesterday, I had the very bad luck of my Linux machine freezing exactly as it was doing a kernel build. Consequence was lots of corrupted files so I couldnt get into the desktop environment anymore.
With the help of chat gpt on mobile, I managed to fix a number of problems, like corrupted system libraries and gpg keys, and reinstall all the files from damaged packages, all without doing a full reinstall of the entire system. I could give it very strange error messages and it would help every step of the way.
I think its just incredible but sure, not everyone gets the same value from it.
You sound like an ad. There's no way you "corrupted system libraries" from a hard shutdown unless you were doing something funky.