Before this drama started, OpenCode was just another item on a long list of tools I've been meaning to test. I was 100% content with CC (still am, mostly). But it was nice to know that there were alternatives, and that I could try them, maybe even switch to them, without having to base my decision on token pricing. The idea of there being escape hatch made me less concerned about vendor lock-in and encouraged me to a) get my entire team onto CC and b) invest time into building CC's flavor of agents, skills, commands, hooks, etc., as well as setting up a marketplace to distribute them internally.

While Anthropic was within their right to enforce their ToS, the move has changed my perspective. In the language of moats and lock-ins, it all makes sense, sure, but as a potential sign of the shape of things to come, it has hurt my trust in CC as something I want to build on top of.

Yesterday, I finally installed OpenCode and tried it. It feels genuinely more polished, and the results were satisfactory.

So while this is all very anecdotal, here's what Anthropic accomplished:

1) I no longer feel like evangelizing for their tool 2) I installed a competitor and validated it's as good as others are claiming.

Perhaps I'm overly dramatic, but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has responded this way.