I get they need to show a path to profitability to please investors, but this is out of control. It runs some operation and then "times out" and hits the usage limit, before it even finishes or even outputs anything. Totally useless now.

I guess the window for "free useable claude" has been closed. Nice while it lasted.

Maybe I'm alone on this but I find the free limits good. I now have a paid plan, but a couple of weeks ago when I was using it, I thought they were generous. Are you maybe asking to much of Claude in one or two prompts that's causing you to use up all your tokens?