Openrouter is a decent proxy for real world use and Grok is currently 8% of the market: https://openrouter.ai/rankings (and is less than 7% of TypeScript programming)
5th place company or better in every chart on that page except 'fastest models' suggests that parent is still right to criticize the 10th place characterization.
They sure are right to criticize but not by this specific evidence: "text is dominating the market share right now and Grok is the #2 model for that in arena rankings"
Grok has the 2nd best text model based on arena rankings (which is a "blind taste test"). The fact that nobody is using it doesn't affect it's score and shouldn't.
Openrouter is a decent proxy for real world use and Grok is currently 8% of the market: https://openrouter.ai/rankings (and is less than 7% of TypeScript programming)