I have no skin in the game (no apps, no bots, no twitter handle any more), but this all just occurred to me while reading articles about some of the apps & tools that will most likely being going away.
There's so much vitriol surrounding this, but if you look at Twitter it's doing just fine.
Why shouldn't people pay for API access? You can't sustain freeloaders forever, especially when most all of them are talking constant shit about you.