Anyone else feel like ChatGPT's free tier got way more restrictive lately?

Used to lean on ChatGPT pretty heavily and it was fine for most casual stuff. Came back to it recently and hit the free limit after maybe a handful of prompts. Definitely wasn't like that before. I don't really care that free is weaker than paid, that's normal. It's the hard caps that threw me off. Can't even get through a normal back and forth anymore before it cuts me off. Got me rethinking my whole setup honestly. General questions, writing, research, bit of coding here and there. Not trying to find something that beats it at everything, just figuring out where things actually landed after all the recent changes. Anyone else notice the shift? Curious how it changed the way you actually use this stuff day to day.