It's one thing to say someone "tracked model growth" and quite another to prove that tracking is the sole informational context behind OpenRouter's reported expansion to 668 models.
This hype of numbers often glosses over the real difficulties in making these models genuinely useful, or even accessible.
Just like listing new e-government services doesn't mean my neighbor doesn't still need to visit the moqata'a in person due to a patchy internet connection, a high model count doesn't automatically translate to practical availability.
What concrete cash flow or behavior changes for actual users when the numbers grow, and what is the real mechanism making it available?