> Token-agnostic prompt structures obscure the cost and are rife with misaligned incentives

Saying that, token-based pricing has misaligned incentives as well: as the editor developer (charging a margin over the number of tokens) or AI provider, you benefit from more verbose input fed to the LLMs and of course more verbose output from the LLMs.

Not that I'm really surprised by the announcement though, it was somewhat obviously unsustainable