OpenAI is a fundamentally a research laboratory - their top priority is pushing the envelope on machine learning research and releasing their progress responsibly. Anything that reduces experimentation and research speed should be avoided, thus the switch to PyTorch makes sense.
As long as as OpenAI is open sourcing their work, there will always be others that will port it over to other frameworks.
As long as as OpenAI is open sourcing their work, there will always be others that will port it over to other frameworks.