Such companies spit out "credits" all over the place in order to gain traction and enstablish themselves. I remember when cloud providers gave vps credits to startups like they were peanuts. To me, it really means absolutelly nothing.
In-kind compensation is still compensation.
Well, yes? I use compute for some personal projects so I would be absolutely fine if a part of my compensation was in compute credits.
As a company, even more so.