Turns out if you make a high quality product with care and passion based on what your users want, then they’ll love it and be happy to pay for it. Who knew?!
Some apps have been allowed to keep operating, I don't know the exact criteria, but as long as an app is non-profit, open-source and provides accessibility settings, they can keep free access to the API
But the cat is out of the bag, it is only a matter of time until Spez sacrifices these apps and old.reddit to the IPO altar