calling anthropic's openclaw shutdown a rug is the most honest thing the ai builder community has said about itself in months

the openclaw harness was letting heavy users run $1k-$5k/day of compute on a $200/month plan.
one product decision, and anyone who built their cost structure around that gap got repriced overnight
the vendor controls the meter... anthropic, openai, whoever.
you've got no seat at the table when the pricing model changes
you don't get rugged by your hammer, you get rugged by a landlord
the builders who survive already use multi-LLM setups vs depending on one meter