I’ve updated section 4 of the post.
The new version explains much more clearly what I believe was the key OpenAI framing trick behind the Business-plan change.
The problem is not just that Business got dramatically worse in practice. The bigger problem is that this regression appears to have been described in a much softer way than users actually experience it.
Instead of making it obvious that Business now burns through limits dramatically faster, the difference seems to have been framed in terms of a softer reduction in “included allowance,” which makes the change sound far less severe on paper than it feels in real use.
That is why so many Business users thought this had to be a bug.
But at this point, I no longer think it is a bug.
I think this is the answer to all the complaints from Business subscribers: this appears to be the new intended policy for Business accounts specifically.
In other words, the Business plan was not “broken” by accident — it appears to have been fundamentally downgraded, and the wording around it was simply soft enough that many users did not immediately realize the full scale of that regression.
That is exactly why I rewrote section 4: to make that point much clearer.