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The problem is that you shouldn't be making breaking changes until you have something in place to replace them. If your app did have consideration for blind users for example, this would be a different conversation. Since it doesn't, wait until it does before changing the API pricing rules to effectively shutdown 3rd party applications.
Again, I doubt it would be hard, even from a business side, to make special considerations for 3rd party apps and ask for considerably less for API calls (I'm not even saying make API calls free!).
As I've said elsewhere, I do understand (and even agree) the main reasons behind these changes was banning AI trainers and NSFW harvesters that seems the motivation behind them. But you should consider the consequences.
There's nothing here!