Pretty sure it’s a design choice; they have attracted so many new users with a free subscription for students and unlimited slow requests, that now they want to squeeze them. They are genius, they give you for free 500 fast requests (also nerfed because you don’t have full context) that you finish in 1 or 2 days, and then force you to pay with usage-based pricing with a crazy high price for a nerfed context window oooor you can pay an extra 20% for the full context window… I don’t want to play their game, so I will use my free student subscription for the 500 fast requests and then use Cline or Roo Code with my Gemini API keys when I finish them. I will pay less and have more or the same in the worst-case scenario. If I wouldn’t have free pro subscription and they keep this design I would 100% cancel my subscription. Please consider doing it because only then they will change something.
(If a staff member is reading this, I would 100% prefer don’t have free pro subscription and pay 20$ but having true unlimited slow request that this ■■■■)
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