Tracking model growth from 2023 to 2025 by OpenRouter is an observation, not the operational trigger for the models expanding. We need to focus on what actually drives the availability, not just the reporting of it.
Just because you track the number of tickets I close doesn't mean the tracking itself causes me to close them.
Developers building new models and providers making them available are the real drivers here.
It's like saying watching the traffic makes the traffic jam worse; it doesn't change the actual flow.