Enshittification aptly describes the symptoms, but it doesn't explain the problem. The underlying issue is that enshittification is just growth induced entropy

Enshittification aptly describes the symptoms, but it doesn't explain the problem. The underlying issue is that enshittification is just growth induced entropy. The constant accumulation of half-baked features or user-hostile choices. Every business that is pressured by investors to grow suffers from this. It's the commercial equivalent of old age. It's why the advertising slowly increases everywhere, why Spotify can't just stay a decent app, why each new release of Windows only rearranges the ads and throws in a new version of the control panel. The cycle is inescapable: * Startup has modicum of success * Success attracts investors/cash * Cash is spent hiring "talent" * The talent has to build SOMETHING * And by definition, half of what the talent produces is BELOW AVERAGE And so it goes, the mutations increase, the telomeres shorten, and eventually the product ends up in the nursing home wishing it had spent more time just focusing on what was important.