> The issue in the article was paying customers complaining about ads.

They will just introduce cheaper, ad supported tier, price hike it to the previous price of ad-free tier and slow-boil the user base

There's no point doing that given the Responses API has to be ad-free unlike ChatGPT Web API for applications to function correctly (no way baking ads into responses sent to third party services using your language model just as a natural language processor), and you have to keep the Web API tiers that's more expensive than the same amount of tokens of equivalent Responses API use also ad-free becuase otherwise the "wrong way of payment" paradox would arise.