They're claiming a huge increase in traffic due to vibe coded projects. It might just be an excuse, but it certainly seems plausible to me.

I simply do not care.

Customers pay for a service. If they don't get what they paid for, it's perfectly reasonable and normal to go elsewhere.

Why do people on HN keep apologizing on the behalf of trillion-dollar companies?

I mean, what will happen here is people will go to other services and they'll get overloaded too.

Self hosted is probably the way to go, but hardware prices are insane currently.