Anyone care to speculate what the internal reasoning is?
I can guess: I am 3 weeks into a 4 week Ultra subscription and the amount of Claude Opus and Gemini Pro tokens that they give you on the subscription is very generous - I feel like I have been gorging on tokens, tidying up 25 years of my open source projects. When my one month subscription runs out I will miss it.
Google has a rich history of product mismanagement. It would be a shame and legacy ruined if it were to change.