I bet 90% of users only stick with Copilot because of the subsidies and the existing per-request billing method
(I know I am).
Plus, the rate limits used to be quite flexible and user-friendly. With that being said
Copilot's performance is, at best, six months behind all of its competitors:
- We waited almost 6–7 months just for the "Hooks" feature.
- Sub-Agent Orchestration only started working acceptably after the last couple of updates.
- Now, we are going to have to wait another 5–6 months for the plugin feature.
- There is no default Copilot support (Or even discussion of planning one) for almost %99 of the open source projects (Even Kiro the one that nobodyh has used ever has more support than Copilot) .
Because even rare attempted projects implemantation docs most likely dosent work at all. Constantly pushing breaking changes makes impossible to keep these projects to add support for Copilot.
Even with uptime metrics dropping to 90% lately
The only real edge was its price-to-performance ratio.
Then, to top it all off, they decided to release major updates WEEKLY.
Yes, WEEKLY.
What is the point of an "Insiders" release if you are going to push a new stable version every single week?
Because of this constant swarm of half-baked features (hilariously half of them experimental flagged but most of it enabled by default anyway ) custom workflows are constantly degrading and failing to function properly.
That kind of instability makes trying to build anything reliable completely pointless. Even if I sat down right now and engineered a flawless, 100% deterministic workflow, it would be a total waste of time.
Give it two weeks, tops, and their relentless tinkering will just blow the entire setup apart anyway.
So instead of fighting it and wasting time resolving every tiny tweak needed to keep my workflows fully functional,
I just started to let things sit at 70–80% functionality and brute-force my way through by mashing the retry button under the chat session.
Than this bring us the latest situation. Now, I would argue that even with all of the problems I listed, Copilot still made a lot of sense to buy. But now, it's hilarious to even have to articulate this problem:
I am getting RATE-LIMITED TO THE POINT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO USE IT IN ANY WAY.
A 3-day rate limit. On a premium service that I paid for.
With absolutely no prior warning or observable metrics that show my usage rate.
With the events of the past two months, they have shown absolutely no interest in responding to community and customer complaints. Furthermore, they have been implementing anti-user policies at a pace similar to what we saw at Anthropic.
Conclusion
Therefore, in my opinion, Copilot has lost its only real advantage. Sure, the price is still the most reasonable out there, but that doesn't matter IF YOU CAN'T EVEN USE IT.