It’s interesting how much of this shift seems to come from legal pressure rather than market competition.
For years both major mobile platforms insisted the 30% cut was necessary for security and platform sustainability. Now that the rules are changing, it suggests the model may have been more flexible than they admitted.
This resonates a lot.
One thing LLMs changed for me is the willingness to automate “small life infrastructure” tasks that I would normally ignore. Not because they were hard, but because they were tedious.
Things like parsing messy exports, gluing APIs together, or turning some weird data dump into a dashboard suddenly feel doable again.
These days the differences feel much more subtle, which makes the names feel more like marketing tiers than product categories.