Agreed. The weird thing is that the author explicitly concedes that things are worse now than they were 10 or 20 years ago. They concede that there's no easy wa

Agreed. The weird thing is that the author explicitly concedes that things are worse now than they were 10 or 20 years ago. They concede that there's no easy way for them to access their own music that they bought. They concede that the internet is less fun; a walled, attention-stealing garden. They concede that corporations are intentionally trying to leasify their products. But they try to squeeze it into their worldview by framing it as a temporary downturn before some great new innovation comes along.