Comment by mapt
19 hours ago
Contrarily, you can interpret the doom pitches as a necessary political backlash whose degree of panic and whose quantity prevented the change from ending up as a fait accompli.
Public decisionmakers do this sort of thing all the time. They "float an idea", "test the waters", "put up a trial balloon". They see what they can get away with. When the decisionmaker has a strong desire for the change, it may only get rolled back if powerful and widespread public dissent makes itself known, as it did in this case. When they don't really care about the issue, they might cancel it at the first sign that anyone has an issue. We can't know their degree of insistence just based on outcomes in these cases.
> the doom pitches as a necessary political backlash
It was totally misinformed, came well after the public-comment period had ended and had zero net effect other than maybe generating some commissions and management fees for rando managers.
There is bona fide hatred for these companies and their managers. Influencers twisted the facts to channel that for views.