I think that's honestly best case

Zitron is fun to listen to but he's so far on one side of the debate that it's hard to take his stances seriously. E.g. "PR scam" also known as marketing. I can't really fault them for the stunt.

I think the real point to hammer on is that Anthropic can't actually afford to give the masses the model because it's too expensive. The actual 'scam' is that we get frontier models that degrade over time because they water down their capabilities after launch in order to manipulate the hype cycle. Yet we pay the same amount every month.