The way I look at it:
1) Generators are borked for the foreseeable for most sites globally
2) People are unwilling/unlikely to pay for hosting
3) Payment through traditional methods remains a giant roadblock
4) Local/renters still need hosting space for content
5) Hosting options are NOT censorship-resistant
6) Policies and business decisions switch on a dime, making users leery of putting money into the ecosystem, creating a vicious cycle of decaying financials
7) GenAI is viability challenged as the bubble deflates and money moves to safe moats like OpenAI and its ilk
We better start thinking on our feet, fast.
EDIT: I like how the dashboard default is stubbornly stuck on the yellow data. I know what you are doing, Civitai.