For a year the loudest complaints in consumer AI have been about the meter: vanishing limits, tokens burning faster than the pricing page implied, a flat plan quietly behaving like a taxi fare. This week the grievance shifted one notch sideways, from “you’re metering what I paid for” to something blunter: you’re taking away what I paid for . Features removed. Browsers paywalled. Favourite models pulled. And, in the sharpest cases, a plan billed for credits that never arrived. The epicentre was ...