While we can't blame any individual team taking an aquihire deal, I have to wonder if their prevalence these days is undermining future startups and sending pot

While we can't blame any individual team taking an aquihire deal, I have to wonder if their prevalence these days is undermining future startups and sending potential customers back to an old school mindset of going with large vendors who are less likely to shut down. After all, why work with a company made up of a few 25 year olds testing out a market, who may "pivot" any time, and will shut down their product when some big company wants to hire them? Seems like a justifiable choice to go with an inferior product from a profitable established company which is much less likely to disappear in two years. Even as a startup guy, I'm hesitant to build on startup products. YC Startups may be even worse in this context as they are frequently picked off and shut down, and the founders are young and not necessarily in the product for the long haul.