What you say makes sense, but they very actually reduced the token limits. We had, say, 20M tokens/week before, now we have 18M tokens/week (example numbers). They didn't just make a model that eats tokens faster.
Ah yes this is sad to see and a lame move for sure… It’s indeed dependent on usage hours but it’s a bad move even if I’m personally not affected since I use it outside of those hours but I agree it’s lame….