u/CortexUnlocked

The old Flash was genuinely generous and people who did iterative small tasks like UI tweaks boilerplate generation or quick coding loops basically lived on it. Now we are hitting walls mid session and that is a real productivity hit

My opinion on this is that its a calculated move by Google to funnel everyone onto the new model and collect real world usage data for fine tuning. Makes sense for them. Does not make it less annoying for us who had workflows built around the old Flash

Well I do not think this is permanent. Once they squeeze out enough data to properly tune 3.5 Flash the access will probably open up again. At least that is the hopeful take. Whether Google actually follows through is a different question

The new flash is flashy and talkitive. A bit annoying it says "Ah!" On each new paragrph like it discovered some thing suspecious in code base. OVERALL speed is good. Need some tamming cz too much output for a small change thus wasting too much computing resources. This is my personal opnion you may not agree.