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You had let small apps coast on optimism and quotas that almost felt forgiving. Then the ceiling lowered just enough to make every growth spike look like a warning shot.
You had provided free starter limits for Firebase projects before repeated quota and product-limit tightening made Spark feel much smaller.
This source records the quota change that made Firebase Spark Plan Headroom materially less useful and how it was announced.
The first time I hit the new ceiling I realized 'starter' had started meaning 'barely'.