Reeling us in with unlimited and locking it down. Classic
No intention to lock it down? Whatever that would mean? We ensure notebooks are totally portable for any other Jupyter install you want to move to.
This change is about laying the groundwork for increased transparency for your paid compute consumption, vs. the current model of kind of hiding that away.
I think this is one of the reasons Google is switching to this model.
By far, the biggest user complaint I get is "why can't I access a GPU" which this change will address.