GPT 5.5 Codex Quota Drains Quickly

I saw it as a test to see how much they could extract since anthropic was pulling ahead after their snafu with the govt. People were flocking to Claude like bees to honey so they had to figure out how to extract more. At first I thought, okay it’s draining pretty quickly I’ll top up. But then after like 2 asks the $40 I topped up with was gone. Then one week I spent 100 over my plan and now I just refuse to pay anymore. It's just gamified and I think they're testing the upper limit of how much they can get back from the consumer (that was my perception of the situation at least