"As things stand, we currently have no AI capabilities. It is as if we have, unfortunately, not yet awakened from the coma that the rest of the world suddenly emerged from in 2022, when everyone was hit by a sweeping wave of AI fever."
Not strictly true. Some of our cloud packages come with AI powered image detection and can hold images and posts for moderation if they are NSFW. We also have AI powered spam detection at Enterprise level.
How much are you prepared to pay for that? Keep in mind that we are not pulling in billions of dollars in ad revenue so any development costs have to be evaluated carefully. Should we add some AI assistant tools in 5.0.1, or revamp how clubs work making them more useful to micro communities? Neither answer is wrong, but simply saying "AI exists and you should integrate it ASAP" does not mean the execution is as simple.
Also keep in mind that any AI API costs to use, so we'd need to pay for each request or you'd need to pay a subscription to an AI engine such as ChatGPT.
Even still, Apple with its significant R&D reserves only managed to add a fairly lacklustre "Apple Intelligence" layer over the top of its first party apps that does little more than summarise long emails and uses ChatGPT-like proof reading and rewriting tools.