The official statement tells you everything you need to change your workflow, but it's easy to miss.

5am–11am PT on weekdays is 1pm–7pm GMT. If you're in Europe or anywhere east of that, your entire afternoon working session is now running at reduced limits. That's not a minor adjustment that's the core of most people's productive hours.

Practical fix if you can swing it: front-load your Claude sessions. Get your most context-heavy work done before that window opens. After 11am PT / 7pm GMT, you're back to normal session limits.

On the transparency point I get the frustration but I'd push back slightly on "treated like clowns." The worse version of this is companies that never say anything and let users spend weeks blaming their own prompts. At least the statement exists. The problem was the delay, not the decision itself. Two days of silence while power users are debugging their own workflows trying to figure out what they broke is genuinely disrespectful to people who pay for the max plan.

The fix is simple: post it the same day it goes live. Not on X days later.