I'll bite: They are shifting profits to CI and service landscape. I paid for 8 seats (previous: $64, now: $32) which gave me 10 000 included CI minutes (now: 3 000). I was just at that limit. Its surprisingly hard to find what the cost per minute is after that, but I guess I can check back in a month and see what my spending ends up at.

I'm sure they have enough info about onboarding and unit economics to see how it will pay off mid to long term.

I'll happily pay for use though, it makes sense and it makes the value addition of github core vs extra more clear.