I don't understand how one can have such a rosy view of OpenAI at this point after all the dishonesty, subversiness and shadiness we have seen in public. Transitive trust is an insidious thing, I guess?
And this one doesn't even sound particularly egregious, I could hardly call this evil.
Either shift down expectations of this company considerably or be disappointed again.
You had high trust in Open AI? I guess you missed many emails.
But you didn't own it. You fell in love with a service that was offered at-will by one party, and then they left.
This is the fate of all services, some faster than others. Don't like it? Stop paying for subscription slop.