i believe this is intended to combat abuse. that said, i do not like the idea.

as many other services did, and even some tangible products are implementing, the introduced limit will later on be used to create more tiers and charge you more for the same without providing anything extra. #shrinkflation

Shrinkflation usually assumes that the product is profitable.

Do we even know the Anthropic financials? My guess is that they're probably losing money on all their tiers.