Paranoid schizo here: This actually seems to be a way to flag users into whales and fishes, and to treat the whales as marks to dumb down their entire needs of LLM value.

People who toggle debug will get "full" access and those who dont care, probably won't notice if their LLM us is degraded.

It seems a pure market segmenting prior to a "shrinkflation" approach to cost management.