It all amounts to chargeable tokens in the end.

Anthropic offers a flat fee subscription.

They offer unlimited flat fee subscriptions? Someone better alert Anthropic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713757

"affecting less than 5% of users"

Conspiracy theories need to at least have a passing compatibility with reality. Anthropic loses money with more tokens used to solve the same problem.

Is it really a conspiracy theory that these companies want to charge by throughput? What exactly is out of the realm of possibility when these companies literally charge by the token...