this is one reason i will not pay for extra usage - it is an incentive for them to be inefficient, or at least to not spend any effort on improving my token usage efficiency.

No, they will not.

I stopped using it for nearly a month because of the performance degradation. I paid for the whole month. Wasted money.

Even for all of us plan users, where we got barely any use from our plan because we'd destroy our 5h and 1w usage limits, also unlikely, after all they have an out of "your usage limits are guaranteed to be 5x of Pro users" (who are also being screwed).

Of course, all their vibe coding is being done with effectively infinite tokens, so...