Comment by RamblingCTO
5 days ago
the main driver of enshittificiation is that you need to grow profits. the problem is: your user adoption will have peaked at some point. you can then raise prices, which will also plateau. the last step is to enshittify your products to increase the margin by providing less for the same money and "reduce costs" (kick out the people/services that made the product good in the first place). the profit driven growth chasing will then kill off the product and the "capital" (shareholders) will move off to the next thing to gut and kill off for a bit of revenue.
it's sustainable if it doesn't need growth (and market beating growth at that). that would be a green flag.
thanks, that sounds like a good approximation of reality
it's a sad reality, I wish we've found the cure already, or perhaps nothing is broken and I just have to zoom out (for ex., smaller bow-and-arrow players now have a chance to take down the nerfed mastodon)
there are some players that don't do it. take Apple for example. not sure why/why not they're doing what they're doing but it seems more sustainable than meta, google etc. and a lot of small players. but yeah, that's late stage capitalism for you I guess? it won't laster forever tho