A very depressing fumble. I was very high on Arc and to see what they've done has completely turned me off the company. Hopefully their telemetry was really showing them the right things but from the Arc subreddit and other commentary there seems to be a lot of unhappy people.

> “the browser will remain free for those who use the A.I. tool only a few times a week.” Miller also hinted at rolling out additional subscription tiers, ranging from $5 to hundreds of dollars per month.

When I saw the $20/mo price tag, I assumed that would cover more than a few AI invocations per week. I would have considered trying it had that been the case. But given this info, I can't imagine it would make sense for me.