It is the lack of transparency that gets me. With PAYG open-weight models, I know exactly what I get for my money.
The Google One site lists all the tiers and their access levels. You didn't bother to check, and call the lack of a nag-screen a "lack of transparency?"
It literally says "Access to our Flash models" with no indication that they would see no updates for... How many months has it been?
I think you can understand why I was expecting the version of the Flash models to keep up with updates.
Edit: And back when I paid for my yearly subscription they also promised access to the Pro models. They simply took that feature away and offered no compensation. So, understandably, I am disappointed and disinterested in their offerings.
"Access to 3.1 pro" and they read it as "Access to Gemini Pro models".
Turns out when Google names a model in that subscription, they mean that model, not necessarily that class of model :/