I have come to believe that scale encourages mediocrity. The financial incentive in scaling is to produce more output, as fast as possible, even if the quality

I have come to believe that scale encourages mediocrity. The financial incentive in scaling is to produce more output, as fast as possible, even if the quality of output is low. They make money by virtue of number of users rather than quality of the product. This explains why FB sucks so bad and still makes a lot of money.