Too big to fail. In the 1970s in Ireland there was a 12 month period in the space of a 5 years, where no banks operated due to a huge strike by the workers. The country just ticked along with everyone extending IOUs to each other for when the banks came back online.

It's just one of those things, you'd think the economy or country would collapse effectively but things just tick on by they way they always did. Imagine the banks in the US closing for 6 months?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_(1966%E2%80...

Yup, it seems like there are a lot of options, but in reality lots of things have become severly centralized. (There has never been a better time to self-host by the way. My Forgejo instance for example is having practically no outages. For AI, use the open models via one of the competing providers.)

I get the sentiment, but the biggest loser is Anthropic, because they aren't earning, and because this will motivate employers to seek alternatives/callbacks.

Their moat isn't large.