Astra is amazing but truly unaffordable at current quotas

Just an observation. After my first impressions of Astra the only limit to my imagination is now the cost of the model. I have multiple subs already and I understand the reality, this is not a complaint. It's just that after a 12h run and 7.8mln tokens total +180mln cached and < 1mln output, it ate 37% of a pro 20x weekly budget. Single project, adding a reasonably sized feature to a mature application and fixing a few small bugs caused by Sol.

I don't see how people on a plus plan would be getting any progress especially with their 5h ceiling and even on a Pro 5x it's going to take forever to reach production with your new SAAS.

To use Astra to the point where it shines and get really productive with it every day across a handful of projects is out of the question I don't even think you could fit enough 20x subs on a single phone number to live the life of a power user at Astra rates.

If not now, then when should quotas be increased from the current unspecified quantity to a larger unspecified quantity? And if you think really not now, then when the next model is even more expensive why even bother having a $20 tier because you'll barely fit half a prompt into the 5 hour window then.

And in general, with this kind of cost, for people who can't afford all this, how can they enter the field if the bar to entry gets raised every few months by such a large amount?