Yes, of course. Forcing monetization disincentivizes small developers from using it for vanity/fun non-profit or personal projects. Thing is, fun/personal proje

Yes, of course. Forcing monetization disincentivizes small developers from using it for vanity/fun non-profit or personal projects. Thing is, fun/personal projects are how people learn. You mess around with the Twitter API just for kicks to build a bot tweeting every time someone orders a pineapple extra-cheese pizza as an in-joke with your friends, and then, hey, you know how to use Twitter's API, and building that expertise helps Twitter. This is the same reason why Linux owns enterprise IT. Not because it was the best solution compared to commercial alternatives, certainly at least not 25 years ago. It's because everybody ran Linux at home, they messed around with it for fun, and they learned it. And when they develop software they'll build it on Linux and thus it's easiest to deploy on Linux too. Breaking the free API was pretty stupid. Not an incomprehensibly huge self-own like breaking third-party clients (which triggered tons of people I follow to move to Mastodon) but in the same zipcode.