Unpopular Opinion: The Cursor hate is MOSTLY unjustified

Hey everyone,

In the past weeks I have read quite a lot of comments about Cursor getting worse and people switching to Roo Code or similar Open Source solutions. I have now tried several open source solutions myself and while they offer better code generation in total, they also cost much much more to run.

For example: I used Roo Code to fix an error in a C# repo. It fixed like 80% of the bug, while also creating a new bug with memory allocation. In total, this one request with all its tool uses etc. has a total cost of almost 0.50$. A single request!

You could argue that Cursor has made some wrong decisions, yet they likely run at a large deficit per user and still have to find optimal solutions for better cost efficiency while maximizing agentic coding capabilities. 20$ a month is still very cheap for what the product offers, especially compared to competitors like Windsurf which offer much less requests and no slow requests after all fast requests are used.

I agree on some of the criticism like Cursor not being transparent enough and not communicating enough with their users, yet I believe that the product is still one of the best in class and I hope that the team will take the right actions and put a higher focus on real developer-benefitting features and optimizations.