This'll likely be the reality moving forward - they allocate more compute at launch to get good test scores, reviews, and news coverge, they get people excited and used to it, then they cut costs.

I'm reminded of the video game industry where they would launch a game without any in-game purchases at launch, get the reviews to make note of it and give it a higher rating because of it... then add in-game purchases anyway. I think that stopped again though.