> Parent is complaining about the auto-provider chosing, not that all providers are unreliable. Parent is claiming that the choosing is unreliable. If I rely o

> Parent is complaining about the auto-provider chosing, not that all providers are unreliable. Parent is claiming that the choosing is unreliable. If I rely on a provider to bring me tuna to some spec, but they get it from many different fishermen, it doesn't mean that the tuna doesn't have meet the spec. The complaint is that they're given a bunch of knobs that simply don't work with providers that they could be switched to. That's like saying that I want my tunas to be 20lbs. minimum, and I get switched to a provider that doesn't weigh their tuna at all. The choosing is all OpenRouter provides. If it doesn't do that, then what is it good for? If I have to permanently pin the one provider who doesn't ignore what I've asked, why shouldn't I just deal with them directly? edit: it's really supposed to reduce providers to a commodity market. If you're selling e.g. produce to a commodity market, you can't just ship whatever the hell you want. You ship something indistinguishable from others, or more likely the market itself allows you to grade what you're shipping so it's put into a bin with virtually identical stuff. The customer just buys Grade B Wheat.