I think because usability increases so much (use cases of real-time conversation,
and video-based coding, presentation feedback at work etc...) they would expect usage to drastically increase hence paying users would actually still have incentive to pay.
I have been practicing deep learning and machine learning for 5 years now, 3 years professionally. I have worked as ML Engineer in YC-startup. Some of my edge skills are in Computer Vision and deployment of DL models on edge hardware (Nvidia Jetson, Mobile). Knowledgeable in general DL, speech and NLP too.
I am open to ML Engineer, Data Scientist & Research Engineer positions, feel free to connect with me on Linkedin or reach out.