Eh...I don't know that that's a viable solution.
Take me, for example - I get $19 of tokens per month through one of my employers. That used to be more than enough to do nearly everything I wanted every month. Now, that's one minor feature per month. So I don't bother even using them. Instead, I use the GPU on my leisure/gaming laptop, and it processes all my LLM requests locally. So I have unlimited tokens.
I think the actual solution is patience. As the tools improved in quality, so too do the quality of the PR. Soon, I believe, they will be better quality than they have been ever before. If maintainers can just hold out that long ... 🤞