Article implies the subscription based model which in turn contradicts the thesis that somehow people can/will use the thing indefinitely. This might apply to s

Article implies the subscription based model which in turn contradicts the thesis that somehow people can/will use the thing indefinitely. This might apply to something like Word or an email provider or search, e.g., a tool that is used often to do a transaction. I doubt if it applies to human relationships as they are not that transactional except when thinking about porn, onlyfans, etc. IMO it was just a bad example because users will always stop using such an app hence it is natural to focus on new users more from the business side. You could equally say that the demise of okcupid happened purely because the newer generation of users had other expectations compared to the prior users, the model could not sustain itself without significant changes and the changes were not significant enough. Correlation is not a causation in other words.