But part of me just wishes they would go back to developing and refining an excellent and user-friendly harness.

I can't imagine what the long term support is for the dozens of products they release every three months.

Meanwhile, they're shipping a more and more buggy and Byzantine Claude code with a million switches and tons of ways to use it wrong.

The subscription play really does feel like a bait and switch lock-in: "we can focus less on the harness because people with subscriptions need to use it, and focus on growth."

Interested to see if this works out for them.