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It seems like the short version is that they're removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno. Maybe the right decision for them in the long term, but it definitely means I'll be migrating away from Heroku for apps I would have otherwise kept there at the free tier and potentially scaled up there in the future.

Any word yet on if existing apps will be grandfathered into their existing pricing model?

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> removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno

This is correct. The first step was removing varnish (which happened a few years ago).

Now, Heroku is hoping to get $7/month from many of the freeloaders. I highly doubt this would make sense if Heroku planned to grandfather anyone.

> The first step was removing varnish

This was removed for architectural reasons. It brought a lot of downtime to the platform and didn't help speed all that much. It's better and faster to cache this type of content with a CDN anyway.

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