Manuel asks a great question. Are the "successful" products actually successful if they're burning someone else's money to stay alive?
A product being popular is an indication of a lot of people using it. Doesn’t necessarily mean that the product is good. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s successful. And if you want proof of that, just browse the Google graveyard. Or pay attention to whatever the fuck Open AI is doing or not doing these days, since it seems to me that they’re killing products left and right.
As I have found Claude code very useful in my work, I also wonder what happens when the AI bubble pops. I better not let my coding skills atrophy so that I can't work without AI helping me.