Imagine for a moment that you could access any book in the world and read it on your device, and this was a service offered by the public library. The why would you give your time and money to Jeffrey Bezos and use audible for the exact same service? Is this even a choice? Can someone explain to me why anyone would use chess.c*m over Lichess?
I just tried it, and meh… I find chess.com faster and easier to use. I’ve also never paid anything for it, so I don’t really get the library vs audible thing.
As far as I can tell, chess.com made a good product and got popular because of it. They aren’t owned by Amazon or anything. Their founders don’t even have their own Wikipedia page.