This is really sad. Replit used to be an interesting service, like a super-advanced version of language "playground" services, to make it easy to play with things and experiment. It seems like they've gone massively downhill.
It was an interesting service, but I guess AI pays better.
I suspect the problem is that the previous model didn't pay at all. I've used it a lot to try out code snippets, but no one pays for that. It was one of those services that a product would outgrow well before you could imagine spending serious money on it.
It is a shame they didn't find traction with the learn to code without all the hassle angle they once had.
They have since unrolled prod/dev db split and dB snapshots And restored that user's db from backup ofc