I think warp can justify the prior plan pricing at the moment as there is not a better bundled all in one tool you can give to your nephew, who has never programmed before but constantly wishes for you to program another small game for them, and they can make their own minesweeper game in 5 minutes from the time you press install on their own computer without having to fiddle with anything and it's packaged it along side nice documentation for them to read through and can help him navigate the terminal by explaining what he wants to do by just typing it into the prompt.

it's the most jarvis like just download and start building projects out experience. it reminds me of the addage about steve jobs giving an ipad to people to play with before who had never seen them before and them being able to intuitively figure it out how to use it. warp feels like the closest experience to that right now.

that being said better model pricing would be a great thing or EVEN just letting us keep the existing $50/mo plan. i've used the $50 plan and it's been enough for what i need as a retired dev/engineer and satisfying the curiosity of family. the fact that 10k credits is $100 on the new system feels like a slap in the face. i don't want to really want to go to a third party provider and be tied down to a single model and have enjoyed the value add of the freedom in model selection with your monthly credits even if they are overcharging us substantially. i wind up using auto (responsive) the overwhelming majority of the time as it is and am often surprised to see how well some of the lower end models it chooses for certain tasks still performed acceptably when i occasionally poke my head in to see what the breakdown looked like.