I pay $200 month and literally have never a single time run out of usage, for Codex + Pro chat. It is better than DeepSeek and at least it supports a US company. Your pain isn’t important to me.
I'm glad that you have the luxury burn $200/mo. But that aside, it's not obvious to me that handing your pennies to an American company that is in cahoots with the American military, willing to self-censor at the direction of the American government, investing in large-scale raping of the planet to build new power plants data centers -- is better than handing your (20x fewer) pennies to a Chinese company who releases its models in the open, and is investing in efficiency so that we can run the same inference for a fraction of the resources.