I'm confused as well. Seems like a negligible amount of traffic at first glance. The administrator mentioned compression, could it really have such a big impact?
In before “it’s just one guy”: there are a thousand ways to solve this that are not expensive or complicated.
Should the offending party have been a better consumer? Yes.
Is it fair to entirely blame the user versus implementing additional caches and safeguards to make it an annoyance and not the end of the world emergency GMP is making it out to be? Definitely not.