Anthropic Killed My OpenClaw Setup 3 Times. The Third Time, I Stopped Blaming Them.

Anthropic just killed OpenClaw. Your Claude Max subscription no longer covers third-party tools. Boris Cherny dropped the news on X on a Friday night (classic), and the community lost it. Everyone is screaming about the price. They're screaming about the wrong thing. I know because this is the third time it happened to me. January: a wall of 403s, my OpenClaw instance dead, me binge-reading Cherny's tweets like a maniac. I yelled at the screen. Everyone was yelling. February: I rebuilt. Kimi K2.5, fifteen dollars a month, pride of the guy who found the fire escape while the building burns. Today: I just nodded. No surprise, no anger. And that's when it clicked: the problem was never Anthropic. The problem is that we all believed an all-you-can-eat buffet for machines that eat 24/7 could last. The real trap isn't the price hike. It's what Anthropic wants you to switch to instead. TL;DR: Flat-rate AI for agents was never a business model, it was VC subsidizing adoption. Anthropic is push