It's fucking shit. Despite the negative publicity, and I just checked as their API rate resets midnight PST, annnd.... Still at 25 per second. Google are fucking shit and their contempt is palpable. I'm seething.
Nothing. Has. Changed.
Fuck you Google. Fuck. You.
You're too small for them to care, yet.
Are you working a full-time job and doing this as a side hustle?