One of life's unwritten laws is "you get what you pay for."
I totally get why someone would want something for free but to whine about this free service not giving them what they want is some combination of entitled and ignorant.
I get the gist of your argument, but the limit was also applied to paid drive accounts - in many media reports these were the people complaining.
Doing the maths it also seems clear that this would be affecting paid users primarily, since the free tier includes 15GB of storage, one would need to keep their average file size under 3kb to hit the 5M file limit.
They still don’t. And you all trust them with your data.