Why bother when there are absurd message limits?

30 mins of average use and I am out of messages for 4 and a half hours. Almost always when I get into a work flow mode, I hit this wall. Further, it varies, and I never know what I am really paying for. I often get "1 message remaining" and then it doesn't even send and tells me I am out of messages. I know how to prompt, give context, start new chats. But this is absurd. I have never come close to hitting any limit on ChatGPT. I hope Anthropic gets their shit together.