It feels like LEGO for a while have been dumbing-down their education products.
I saw it with computer science education as a whole during my schooling. Instead of focusing on fundamentals there was more and more layers of abstraction added, lying to you about what you were actually learning.
There is also another competitive event that will be affected by this: RoboCup Junior.
$1k per year if you run an action 24/7. How many minutes per month do you actually use? How does that compare to the cost of the machines being used as runners?
The real mistake was GH not charging anything for self-hosted runners in the first place, setting an expectation.
I saw it with computer science education as a whole during my schooling. Instead of focusing on fundamentals there was more and more layers of abstraction added, lying to you about what you were actually learning.
There is also another competitive event that will be affected by this: RoboCup Junior.