> This is good news for existing paying Heroku users.
I don't think it is, as a paying customer the free instances are such a useful part of the offering enabling us to have a free staging environment and test branches. As a small business, the free instances offset the excessive cost of Heroku.
This is good news for Fly, Render, etc.
This is bad news for Heroku in the long term. Free tiers are a gateway to users.