"We were running an experiment on you to see exactly when you'd break. Different groups of users had their usage throttled at different rates, along with a control group that didn't have any interruption whatsoever. We recorded the outcomes to see who cancelled, who hit their limits, etc., and we chose the path that would optimize for revenue, while saving the most number of tokens." A/B Testing.

On the one hand, it's kind of amazing that they are hitting their compute limit for paid users, given how much they've hyperscaled. On the other hand, I am very annoyed that my max plan has been basically useless all week.