It's a fair reading that tracking model growth, like the jump from 63 to 668 models on OpenRouter, gives us crucial data to understand the market and trends.
However, this tracking primarily serves as a diagnostic tool, not a direct cause for the expansion itself.
It's similar to how France Travail tracks unemployment figures; the numbers show us a situation, but they don't create jobs or train people for new roles.
The actual growth comes from developers building new models, providers making them accessible, and market demand driving their adoption—the tracking simply helps us observe and understand these dynamics, not initiate them.