This is a desperate move by a company that is in huge trouble.

I paid almost every month since gpt4 came out but mine lapsed when Gemini was released and I haven't even thought of logging in.

The subscribers are exactly the users who would migrate to Gemini. Then your left with the prospect of this giant free chatgpt user base setting money fire.

Wouldn't be shocking at all looking back 10 years from now that maybe the path that Altman stays fired would have been the better path.