Am I off, or does Google have the pricing that varies the most between model generation releases?
Pricing often reflects what the vendors (expects) the customer is willing to pay. It seems that Google is still trying to find their niche in the market.
It seems that they're trying to push up-market, or at least they were.
Given the extremely competitive releases of GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 (both pro and flash), I don't think there'll be appetite for it.