I’ve noticed many posters using Doctorow’s term “enshittification” here. In the interest of preserving a useful word for a few more years - I don’t think it ful

I’ve noticed many posters using Doctorow’s term “enshittification” here. In the interest of preserving a useful word for a few more years - I don’t think it fully applies. Enshittification is about how _platforms_ die, in the ultimate phase using monopoly power to extract rents from increasingly frustrated users. As bad as car touch screens are, is this rent-seeking? You could argue that subscriptions to “features” in your car are getting closer to Doctorow’s concept. But cars aren’t platforms. I am not locked into my VW purchase because all the other drivers are using VWs.