I guess the problem is, that claude's 5 h/weekly limit is not consistent, but depends how many other people are using it/how much ressources Antrophic currently has. I did huge amounts of work without hitting the limit - and small tasks at some other times that hit the limit before it completed.
Those who pay for the expensive direct API, get served first.
Not surprising given the way they served super low-quality inference before they acquired compute from Musk.
And not convinced they couldn’t have instead tried the It’s A Wonderful Life strategy (“fam we’re oversold, would some of y’all be OK to limit your usage? We’ll get you back one day!”)