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SAAS brings the cool things people build in our insular computing community to the general user in an intuitive way, and that's celebrated. Not sure why these "GPT Wrapper" companies are getting so much hate.
The fact that it earns so much shows that the thing people pay for, for the most part, is usability and convenience... as if Apple being the most valuable company in the world for a while didn't already illustrate that.
I mean there's a big difference between varying degrees of what a "wrapper" is - the issue I personally have are applications/SaaS that make absolutely wild claims about what it can do by integrating AI and the application backend is a stupidly thin wrapper around GPT that just sends the prompt and returns the result.
If you're doing a lot of other stuff, fine, but in this space there's no real definition of what "integrating AI" means other than just being exactly that, a wrapper around GPT. Which really isn't innovative or groundbreaking.
Regarding other SaaS being "wrappers" - yea, typically these "wrappers" are around proprietary code the company has also developed, not just blatantly re-selling another SaaS's services.
Aren't all programs just wrappers around kernel calls?