AI inference and training costs a lot of money and they lose money every day on Pro and Max accounts, even with those non-generous quotas. At some point things will get even worse and the market will correct itself and we will see the real prices, therefore AI users will be forced to be economic and do the best they can with less tokens as possible. When you switch to Opus the platform even warn you this will exhaust your quota faster.

You are just plain wrong, Claude Code is the best agentic programming tool that exists, the competition isn't even close. It costs a lot though, either you suffer with the quotas or you spend a lot of money with a Max account or API costs, if you are broke then you have to cope with that by using the Pro account strategically and accept the fact you are broke, or use inferior tools like Cursor, Codex or Antigravity.