To me it seems like Firebase essentially supports the cancer of the (app/software) industry: Creating/buying an app, making it popular and drawing every last p

To me it seems like Firebase essentially supports the cancer of the (app/software) industry: Creating/buying an app, making it popular and drawing every last penny out of it while pissing off the core users who helped to make it popular and then letting it die. Rinse and repeat. It helps you piss off the core/current users a little less to draw out the process as much as possible and make more profits, but the result is the same. Using optimization strategies and software like Firebase disconnects you from the user base as you turn your users into the product. Of course this would come from Google who are experts at it. They get away with it though, because their software is great and there are few alternatives, but that's not the case in the app market. /rant