Because if they made a new version of old facebook, it would be subject to the same growth/enshittification forces they turned old facebook into new facebook, s

Because if they made a new version of old facebook, it would be subject to the same growth/enshittification forces they turned old facebook into new facebook, so better to just cut to the chase. It is weird how different facebook is now compared to when it started. In a few of the small towns I have lived in, there are very active Facebook groups with basically the whole town in, all the businesses, tradespeople, etc elected representatives, and the Facebook group takes the place of a local newspaper/classified ads or personal/business dedicated webpages. It's quite practical, but unfortunately how much ad and other drivel content gets mixed in. Meanwhile, the actual person-person "friend" stuff is almost completely hidden/unusable behind dark patterns.