Ollama Is Quietly Dying (Everyone's Going Raw llama.cpp)

Ollama just raised sixty-five million dollars and crossed 176,000 GitHub stars. By every number that matters to its investors, it's thriving. So why does a growing slice of the local-AI crowd keep telling you to skip it and run llama.cpp raw instead? This one goes through the actual GitHub issues, the real benchmark gap, the quantization ceiling, and the February move that quietly undercut the strongest argument for sticking with the wrapper — then tells you honestly who should switch and who shouldn't.