As someone that's worked at Intuit in the past this is likely not intentional.. they're a disaster internally. The QuickBooks and TurboTax teams seem on the ball but the rest of the company is a project management disaster.

How is this a 5, Insightful? The point is being missed completely. It's not about metered access it's about metered access to specific applications. It's about telling someone they need to pay more to reliably to get point X. Who cares about metered bandwidth if that's what they want. It is the fact that they are trying to make the internet into private internets where you have to pay to play to access services.