I don’t see much of a difference. It’s obvious this was going to happen. Is there any instance of a big site that doesn’t go this way? It seems as if sometimes

I don’t see much of a difference. It’s obvious this was going to happen. Is there any instance of a big site that doesn’t go this way? It seems as if sometimes people will always act surprised when sites monetize heavily. As if the site was always going to remain as basic as it was in its early days while growing. This is almost never the case except in cases where it goes paid [only]. Even those have exceptions (newspaper sites vs Substack)