Yeah, I follow the same view, I've stopped paying attention to companies that raise venture capital or are publicly traded (aka, they don't truly own the direct

Yeah, I follow the same view, I've stopped paying attention to companies that raise venture capital or are publicly traded (aka, they don't truly own the direction of their own business). Whatever good is there is _always_ subverted by the persistent need for "growth" and "increasing engagement" and hitting metrics that are pleasing to investors. It'll start out pretty minor, but the trajectory is persistently altered at nearly every single point of decision. The sway is there, no matter what, and sometimes major decisions are driven solely by "it's what our stakeholders want/need", and the thought of the end-user of the software is practically an afterthought or side-effect.