With the 80% price cut, this is competitive with Opus 5.5 despite the subscription downgrade.
Additionally, it was said that existing 20x subscriptions retain the higher limits for some time.
I have seen you make these immature accusations that users here are OpenAI employees multiple times today.
This is not even remotely true.
If you're running 2-3 parallel agent session with a few sub agents and waiting for you to prompt them, you'll have a very different experience!
This is a tiny minority of people, not “most people”.
(Usage limits are entirely dependent on what you're doing with them. If you're not running it on 1 million LoC codebases you can get a lot of mileage out of even a 5x account particularly with the recent cheap models)