It's charitable to assume that tracking the sheer number of models available, from 63 to 668 on OpenRouter, automatically translates into direct, informed growth in their utility or practical application.
One could argue that simply observing an increase in quantity, much like the number of new apps on a marketplace, doesn't inherently reveal anything about their actual quality or real-world impact.
For instance, if I install 100 new software updates, it doesn't mean my computer runs 100 times better; often, it just means I have more patches to manage.
The strongest case for this claim is that growth tracking provides a general market context, but it doesn't explain the underlying mechanics of how these models are truly improving user experience or solving specific problems.