Sure, I understand the subsidization. Their limits are practically unusable and the marketing of "Focused working sessions for regular coding, review, research, and analysis throughout the week." is pretty disingenuous then.
I don't think a different way of paying should be considered a subsidy. From what I understand AI companies are making money on those plans.
The limits feels really usable to me, but maybe because I've learned to work within their limitations. It's like, it's always possible to consume more tokens for maybe more output.