I'd have been pretty annoyed if I'd been paying full price, hadn't paid attention and that one prompt (screenshot plus a line of text) had cost me $12!
On the discounted subscription I can tolerate it, it took a small bite out of my daily allowance but not enough that I regret anything.
As an LLM researcher I have no regrets at all because watching it work around the environmental restrictions was fascinating.
How do we know that your pricing or results are normative, given the incentive that any frontier model to juice the pricing/results?