Interesting post. I think what happened was that there used to be an idea that good tech was an important competitive advantage. Therefore, highly competent dev

Interesting post. I think what happened was that there used to be an idea that good tech was an important competitive advantage. Therefore, highly competent developers were listened to. But the industry came to realize that it's not better tech that wins, but underhanded, addictive, and deceptive tech. Engineers in my experience aren't motivated to use their engineering power to deceive, so if your goal is to use software to monetize users by violating their privacy, you need someone else at the helm of that ship.