If I recall right, WhatsApp tookaway our lifetime subscriptions like a year after buying it, saying it wasn't necessary or something and put everyone all on the same plan.

Big corpo cash and big risk appetite.

That proves nothing with respect to the LLMs usefulness, all it means is that you are still useful.

Currently the eircode is specific to the residence, unlike Japans current system.

All that's different with Japans new system is that the code will be transferrable whereas Ireland's is not.

Irish-based websites add those fields.

https://www.eircode.ie/business/business-overview