Thanks for the info, but I did pause this, not through Google Play, it was via the UI. I received an automated email from them that my subscription had been paused as I expected and will resume in 1 month unless I cancel (I can’t cancel because the cancel UI doesn’t exist in whatever status my account is somehow in).

It’s funny that Claude Pro says this isn’t a feature, because their chatbot gave me instructions on how to unpause via the UI (although said UI does not exist) so the bot seems to know it’s a feature.