It's not a particularly crazy idea that free users get a lesser experience. I'm perfectly happy to pay for youtube since it provides by far the best content and the price is reasonable.

The fact that people can get all of that for free with some minor limitations is fairly generous.

> It's not a particularly crazy idea that free users get a lesser experience.

Agreed, but it's the difference between a restaurant serving a mid-tier soup for cheaper versus giving customers a really good soup that the chef spit's in to encourage people to pay for the more expensive version of it.

> fairly generous.

Is Google "generous" ?