This is why "unlimited" subscriptions are going to go away, because people can't just use what they paid for, they have to drain every bit of value out in every way they can. Things sold as "unlimited" are always done so within some scope that makes it hard to abuse, on purpose. Unlimited free refills, but you can't bring a bucket to take home. Unlimited home bandwidth, but you can't use it to run servers. Yes you ca…
Personally - I think this cuts both ways. Things sold as "unlimited" are often much more expensive for the average user than proper rate based billing would be (see - mobile data, internet data in general, those soft drinks [incl a couple refills] etc...) It's "nice" in that neither party explicitly needs to track usage (although to your point, the company almost always does actually monitor and track), and it can al…
I've paid for cloud services at some non-trivial scale, and pricing them out becomes a big job. Understanding what you're going to pay month to month, how changing one part of your infra changes pricing, etc, is hard. I absolutely don't want to take that work into my personal life.