I think Cory D has nailed it with enshitificafion
but......"with the market sewn up by a group of cozy monopolists, better alternatives don't pop up and lure us away, and if they do, the monopolists just buy them out and integrate them into your enshittification strategies, like when Mark Zuckerberg noticed a mass exodus of Facebook users who were switching to Instagram, and so he bought Instagram. As Zuck says, "It is better to buy than to compete"" It's only days or weeks before MZ makes me an offer I can't refuse. :-)
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