1) this reads like it's posted by an LLM

2) why could they not just up the prices for new deployments, like they did with their dedicated servers? I think that would be fairer to existing customers

If you have a company, I can recommend leaseweb for cheap hosting. I host my personal stuff like my email and my ente.io instance there. They are cheaper than Hetzner (already before the new price increase) if you don't need managed k8s.