I don't really care all that much, because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it. Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio, Microsoft caps the context window of Sonnet 4.6 at 200k even though it's capable of 1M, & at this price point there's almost certainly better ways of getting the same results from other models via other CLIs or plugins.
- they "swallowed" my monthly subscription in January, I had to subscribe (and pay again)
- they promised tools to preview the new costs, they did too little and too badly (you have to click an export button, wait for a mail and click on a link on it, then download their csv which even showed substantial dollar costs for rows with 0 requests)
- models kept on appearing/disappearing/re-appearing-disabled on our company account in the latest weeks
- as of May 31th, I had no clue and could not tell if I would been migrated to token billing, or would have to stay with the moronic new multipliers. News came on Jun 1st, of course
They don't really look able or willing to properly manage their own product at the moment. And yes, new subscription are paused, so I won't be able to re-subscribe.
Quite frankly the only reason to go copilot is to have it in the VSCode chat (and yes, there's some chance to use it BYOK, provided it works).
Besides, their offering even at market prices looks inferior to what you can get elsewhere. You can use DeepSeek and pay pennies, use Fireworks and have the choice to use cheaper open models (which GitHub does not provide, and are actually good and even better than Claude sometimes), or subscribe to Open Router and use virtually anything.
I still have no idea if cancelling my subscription will get any money back, probably not.
Dissatisfaction is kind of expected (my cost goes up 2 orders of magnitude and I already cancelled since there are better options at market rate). Complaining without change won’t matter.
I suspect most of the developers in the angry set have been using Ralph loops while they sleep or are being ran in circles all day with aimless prompting (bad leadership).
If you know what you want done, are being encouraged to go do it, and have some experience regarding the space of possible outcomes, you can go further on one token than your peers can on a thousand.