> They all have amounts defined in their service agreements of how much you can eat and in what intervals.

Seems like you're okay with honoring the terms of service, then? Because the client you can use is also in the terms of service.

I'm confused why the presence (or lack of) a limit is relevant to the pretty simple analogy...

A buffet is saying "pay $X to eat food one plate at a time [up to 100 lbs of food]", and you show up and start shoveling the food into your bag. Does not really matter if we remove the 100lbs part.

Could you technically eat the same amount of food one plate a time? Sure. But if everyone does this, $X needs to be significantly more: even for the people who eat one plate at a time.

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You could also argue they're playing a mean trick and deceiving people because technically someone could eat the same amount of food 1 plate at a time...

But they priced $X based on how much the average person can eat, not how much food they can carry in their arms. If the limits are so high that people don't leave hungry eating 1 plate at a time, it still seems like a fair deal.

I'm not exactly the type to jump for joy at siding with a corporation, but I really don't get why people are in a hurry to ruin a good thing.

Exactly. And yet that's what some people are doing, they're sneaking in their takeaway containers and getting stroppy at being banned.