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Enshittification does not mean a service getting worse in your opinion, it has a narrower definition - the practice of luring in users with an unusually good deal, many times subsidized by VC money, and then when you've got enough users hooked, you improve your bottom line at the expense of the quality of the service.
If you can show that this is something that is improving the bottom line at the expense of the service, then it would be enshittification, but I really don't think you can.
They've made the free version worse and worse and have added more and more useless features to the paid version. Maybe it's not enshittification in the strictest of terms, but it's not far.(also lol, we're talking about a 1 year old term as if it's super established)