"We’ll begin to invite people from the waitlist and will broaden availability beyond the United States soon. Join the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/WGCzGxkA16EZekdM6"
The problem with US only thing is not that they prioritize payed users, but usually when this happens, the free version gets much worse as it burns money.
I see the same thing with Twitter blue: it's US only (and few more countries) as well, and for people in other countries it's just ads.