I do accept their argument, but only because the vast majority of 'apps' are abandoned and use <1mb per day. Fuck, probably at least half have never had code uploaded to them!

This change will affect everyone that actually uses GAE free hosting, even the ones using much less than 1gb/day. The way the free quota works, it's throttled to keep you from using it up all at once -- which means that anyone without billing turned on just took a massive hit to QOS.