The amount of downtime the big AI companies are showing doesn't help. Do you want your company's sales and customer service to shut down every time OpenAI or Anthropic goes down?
Nevertheless, it happened. The problem is that businesses demand stability. Building an application, service, or business process around an API that can be turned off whenever a government demands represents an unacceptable risk.
It’s not a mental exercise when it has already happened once before and likely will happen again. If you control the weights and invest in your own hardware to run them (or rent it from a cloud provider), that risk can be mitigated.