You are always paying one way or another, I prefer to pay in dollars and not frustration, attention, or privacy.

Not an option. Companies are happy to sell you products at premium prices, take your money, and then still collect, mine, insecurely store, and sell all your private data.

I am surprised they didn't rollback their change from 2019 when they included up to 5 private repos in free plan. Before that you had to pay to keep your code from being publicly visible.

Unfortunately time and time again, the overwhelming majority of people show that they would rather deal with an unreliable scummy company for "free" than pay $1/mo for a reliable service which treats them with respect :(

OK that "treats them with respect" is certainly an important aspect though. It does not seem like GH is especially great on that one, including listening to its users.

> service which treats them with respect

Which mythical tech company - free or paid - does this?

Surely that's the point. Shed users.

Microsoft are doing many things to help the AI coding surge, I'm not sure if this'd be a cost effective thing towards it.

Pay per issue and commit. Buy 1,000 commit credits at a time.

Might force people to review their slop before pushing it.

I wasn’t being completely serious with my suggestion, but I was thinking of a totally PAYG model. Monthly plans could come with credits, like they already do for Actions.