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Free tiers are meant to be abused, because they should not be provided for free, and this is the market reacting to remove it.

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Imagine a restaurant offering free samples or complimentary dishes to their customers. It helps in product discovery, and indirectly in adoption of other products that they pay for.

Then a person comes in starts gobbling every sample, because they believe "free tiers are meant to be abused".

> Then a person comes in starts gobbling every sample, because they believe "free tiers are meant to be abused".

That’s what happens in practice, even if they don’t believe this.

Then you kick them out. It's not very hard.

Of course, because having someone eating them all is the natural process; you need to kick the people out to prevent it.

In practice, they have someone giving out the free samples.

Also, social shame generally applies and people conform to social norms.

People like you are the reason we can't have nice things.

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