This whole idea that merely tracking model growth actually "informs" or drives the expansion of models on OpenRouter sounds like pure hype.
Tracking is just observing, like counting how many students show up; it doesn't explain why they are there or what real effort made it happen.
Did developers suddenly have a surge of real cash flow, or did hosting become easier for them, to go from 63 models to 668?
For instance, simply monitoring the number of new clinics built doesn't cause them to appear; it's the permits, funding, and actual construction work that proves the change.