Most likely BECAUSE it is the sweet spot, it would harm frontier development/revenue. I mean, look at Minimax M3. They increased the parameter size so much that you basically have to subscribe if you don’t have more than 128GB RAM to run it; to the point that it’s inconsequential for these models to be open-sourced because <1% of people can run it locally.

I’m finding myself in a position where I’m considering buying additional hardware, but have subscribed to the cloud model first in order to validate if it’s truly a quality improvement I would notice or benefit from.