I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.
It’s really hard to predict the future. Marking an event as inevitable makes one sound a bit crazy.
What we can say, is that it’s highly possible and it is not unreasonable to prepare infrastructure for the possibility