The intermittency issues can be fixed but I agree that the dependency on web app providers and their fickle business models is scary. The way it works is to fu

The intermittency issues can be fixed but I agree that the dependency on web app providers and their fickle business models is scary. The way it works is to funnel all the profits into a few huge conglomerates that benefit from exclusive access to all personal data and train users to never depend on anything that isn't a core product of one of these conglomerates. Using their 80% margins they can afford to at least give us some time before scrapping software that doesn't look it's ever going to reach 4bn consumers. The result is stability. Until they all get toppled by the next technology revolution. Years later, regulators will crack down hard on some of the side issues of their former dominance and once again miss the currently relevant issues :)