Over time, what is being offered are these little compromise tools that provide a little bit of memory retention in targeted ways, presumably because it is less costly to offer this than generalized massive context windows. But I'd still rather have those.
The small little tools make strange assumptions about intended use cases, such as the transactional/blank slate vs relationship-driven assumptions pointed out by another commenter. These assumptions are annoying, and raise general concerns about the core product disintegrating into a motley combination of one-off tools based on assumptions about use cases that I don't want to have anything to do with.