>I need to say that corporate consolidation is never good for consumers.

Truer words, never spoken. I'm not sure how exactly this will screw me over -but I do know that it will.

curious as a non-user, but what does openrouter have to do with stripe? Ignoring the corpo-speak about mission statement.. the missions don't really seem aligned in reality.

That's a rule but then Stripe won the market by having very friendly interface and minimizing the pain of dealing with paperwork for merchants. When PayPal (the worst offender, just hostile company) acquired BrainTree it was clearly a terrible news. When Stripe acquires OpenRouter I wouldn't be so sure.

This must a purely aesthetic judgment apriori. Many services of value to me failed for lack of capital.