We will probably end up removing CockroachDB from our infra due to this change. It also makes me a bit worried about their long term viability. How much ARR does CockroachDB have and what was their last round valuation...?
Other issue: Telemetry is mandatory on the free tier and cost to avoid it is to high. Some industries cannot have telemetry enable, or at least not without a heavy amount of reviews, think finance or healthcare.
They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...