Why do you care so much? If you like GPT-4, you can still use it.

Nobody really has an incentive to go after OpenAI right now. They leverage a ton of proprietary research, millions of dollars of GPUs and millions of users who they serve at a loss. And when they modify their model, those users then accuse them of self-sabotage and censorship, threatening to take their business elsewhere.

The market doesn't even know what it wants yet. Serving a weak, neutered model for simple home assistant stuff is the least controversial and most profitable option.