Hm okay fair enough, I'll check out the podcast I do think that's a better format for communicating some of the details of this type of criticism. > It was an

Hm okay fair enough, I'll check out the podcast I do think that's a better format for communicating some of the details of this type of criticism. > It was an unforced error that they must have seen coming. To some extent this feels like something that's happening a lot in tech across the board, not just in 'culture war' type issues but across several other fronts (the various Metaverse flops, for example). I do think this indicates an overabundance of groupthink, but part of me wonders if its just a consequence of these companies becoming so big and working on so many fronts that it's basically impossible for them to avoid stepping on every rake. Still, they did seem like they genuinely wanted this to take off so concerning that couldn't be prepared for even this basic failure mode (which is already a pretty well-trod problem space).