As a current OpenAI subscriber (just the regular $20/mo plan), I'm happy to not spend the effort switching as long as they stay within a few negligible percent of the State of the Art.

I tried DeepSeek, it's fine, had some downtime, whatever, I'll just stick with 4o. Claude is also fine, not noticeably better to the point where I care to switch. OAI has my chat history which is worth something I suppose - maybe a week of effort of re-doing prompts and chats on certain projects.

That being said, my barrier to switching isn't that high, if they ever stop being close-to-tied for first, or decide to raise their prices, I'll gladly cancel.

I like their API as well as a developer, but it seems like other competitors are mostly copying that too, so again not a huge reason to stick with em.

But hey, inertia and keeping pace with the competition, is enough to keep me as a happy customer for now.