> I dislike repeating "enshittification" so much, but behavior like this seems to be spreading at an exponential rate. Modern-day capitalism optimizes for maxi

> I dislike repeating "enshittification" so much, but behavior like this seems to be spreading at an exponential rate. Modern-day capitalism optimizes for maximum enshittification, because there isn't enough competition to encourage any other result. Occasionally you'll have a company that does what's "supposed" to happen: provide a generally better product to gain market share against competitors, but that's rare. Pretty quickly they start responding to the same incentives as the incumbents, and enshittify their products too. Modern technology has also been a double-edge sword. It's provided consumer benefits, but has never really lived up to its potential, because "innovation" frequently means new consumer-hostile uses of the technology (e.g. pervasive communications technology means your car can now provide a middling navigation app; as well as can spy on you, sell your data, and show you ads).