If you dislike a _b_ version of an a/b tested site to the point that you feel deeply dissappinted by it, were the people who designed the experiment operating w

If you dislike a _b_ version of an a/b tested site to the point that you feel deeply dissappinted by it, were the people who designed the experiment operating with a malicious intent? I don't think facebook engineers or data scientists care what people feel when they're adjusting their models, they only care about time spent on their platform or some other overly reductionist metric. One could argue that chasing super-efficiency will always result in abominations, but I think its hard to say that someone is doing something imoral by just doing the human equivalent of gradient descent in the optimization problem of driving engagement. That's not to say that we shouldn't have a conversation about this and not figure out ways to make these super efficient and powerful companies find ways to be satisfied with organic engagement.