Is this the end of CharacterAI?

Before anything else, I'd like to tell my story. A year and a half ago, an online friend told me about C AI. At that time, although I had tried chatbots, I didn't really liked then; they seemed too simplistic to me. But anyways I gave c ai a try, I loved it. It felt like a mix between fanfic and roleplay; it seemed like the most ingenious thing in the world. I used it more or less frequently for a year and a half.

Then came the infamous age verification update and the addition of advertising. The app might have had its weird stuff and silly quirks before, but it was nice and fun to use, until that update. Then the app became completely unusable. The whole asking for id to "verify" you ar not a minor (Although I think it's reasonable, children shouldn't use something like that without supervision) Nonsensical changes like limiting swipes under the pretext they are expensive while keeping features that nobody uses (like animated avatars) combined with a new trend towards monetization.

My question is, do you think this could be the beginning of the end for Caracter AI? With the massive drop in popularity qualifications, the massive exodus of users to other chatbots or directly giving up chatbots as a whole, the aggressive monetization, and the fact that the site owners don't seem to care about users opinion, how much time do you give CAi before it stops being profitable and they shut down?

I personaly think if the app doesn't improve, I give it roughly until the end of this year, and by the beginning of next year it could be officially considered dead.

What's your opinion on this?