Between this and the crackdown on using subscriptions with third-party clients such as opencode, hermes, openclaw, etc.... Anthropic seems to be wanting to throw away their lead in the business space back to OpenAI.

Hopefully at some point there's a happy medium in AI costs for the consumer that's in-between the frankly outrageous costs of using pure API interface and what is for a lot a loss-leader in the subscriptions.