While the idea of ads can be polarizing, if OpenAI implements them in a way that is highly targeted and non-intrusive, it could be a sustainable way to fund further innovation and keep the core service accessible to a massive user base. Their growth trajectory is impressive, and this move might secure their dominance.
It does feel that ICE was designed to protect the country from the worst abusers of the immigration and ignored the fact that it will affect everyone else as well, going to the jail for a few weeks due to visa issues is too much.
Interestingly, it doesn't explain why these sales were not "backfilled" before this sale weekend, given the comment that "simply filed a number of backlogged applications, as is normal for the program."
I think with necessary effort websites with most of the frameworks could be loaded quite fast (with some obviously it is easier), the thing is it's rarely the priority compared to the business needs that are getting addressed.