A: Free plan getting 3000 queries (via 102 x 30 is approx 3000) is not realistically the right math. And therefore, the comparison is not totally fair.

Consider this:
Most free plan users just need to use Merlin 5-10 times a month. They don't use it everyday. And queries don't carry over to the next day, so for 20-25 days a month, their 102 queries per day gets lost.

Hence in practice its more like 500 to 1000 credits per month for a free user.

Also, the days when they do use it, their queries get exhausted as they will need to have a longer chat. If you are a power user of AI tools, you will use AI 10-20 times every month, and for that matter you will have way more credits than the free plan users (who have to drop out and use other tools after a point, right when they need it the most -- while on weekends and other low activity days, they don't use Merlin at all and their 102 credits go into drain).