One of the main things it communicates to me is that the decision makers in these start-ups are no different than the decision makers in bloated old firms that

One of the main things it communicates to me is that the decision makers in these start-ups are no different than the decision makers in bloated old firms that survive with regulatory capture. If you follow the money trail, it eventually bottoms out with the same musical chairs of people making the same tired business moves with overt and deliberate goals to manipulate people into product lock in before changing terms to be unfavorable. Most start-ups, even fancy seeming ones backed by sexy VCs where you think, surely this one must be genuinely innovating in some way, are just the same centuries old bureaucratic anti-consumer bullshit, just dressed up with a sleek infinite scroll and using hashtags and the word lolz on the webpage.