Came across a relevant quote in another post by @htdvisser
Every device has the same transmit duty cycle, gateways are no exception. The TTN backend is compliant with these regulations, so in Europe we stay under the 1% duty cycle for g and g1 and under 10% for g3 . By default, gateways transmit with maximum allowed TX power (14 for EU-868).
See original at Fair Use Policy explained - #7 by jakl5749
So wonder if this approach has changed or something has slipped through in the updates to the TTN server.
@kersing, I also went back and reread the LoraWan Regional parameters and agree, they seem to be written from a Node’s perspective.