Their cloud offerings at hobbyist level is vastly superior to any of the big clouds. Just objectively better.
Yet they keep nuking hobbyist accounts with little rhyme or reason as to who gets hit. So nobody builds anything remotely serious on it.
Congrats Oracle, you've managed to get the worst of both world: Incur the cost of free tier while ensuring future high value customers don't trust it.
At any rate, I've had mine since the start of Covid Times and never had problems provisioning an instance.
I think in these situations you have to imagine what would be sustainable if every user did the same. If you exceed that, you’re probably going to meet some friction.
I used it as a gitlab server, it was regularly updated, there were no other services running. It wasn't even used intensively, maybe 2-3 pushes a day. And yet, one day they just closed everything.
No suprise as everybody was warning me they would do it but still it felt very weird.
An Oracle hobbyist is a (sad-o-)masochist ;)