> nor does everyone have the disposable time to learn how to make it hugely useful to them.

True, I’d rather spend my time to get useful skills whose usefulness cannot be destroyed by a single corporation deciding to pull the rug.

> A lot of others are ok with e.g. "paying" for it by going to Google's AI Mode, and getting some ads.

Since everyone who uses Google the search engine is forced to use Google AI, we can’t get meaningful statistics for those.

So ChatGPT cannot deliver you $20/month worth of productivity to offset the cost? That's at least my point, for developers, businesses and a ton of use cases, access to a good AI is worth every penny, because it easily pays for itself. For the average consumer, that's just not true, apparently.