How We Replaced Our x402 Payment Facilitator in a Single Afternoon

This morning I got an email from Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP): Your organization has reached the monthly free tier limit for settled x402 payments using the CDP Facilitator. Additional settled payments will require a payment method on file. Fine. I tried to add a payment method. CDP rejected my KYC documents three times. There is no support channel for KYC issues — just "try again later". By that point we were already settling roug