all appears like the classic playbook of "Acquisition by a big company who predominantly has an enterprise sales GTM which then kills the self serve channel as

all appears like the classic playbook of "Acquisition by a big company who predominantly has an enterprise sales GTM which then kills the self serve channel as they cannot evaluate the value it brings". in a few years said company goes, "why have we lost our acquisition funnel and aren't relevant to the developer community and why is X new service taking share from us?"