I think this criticism can applied to most SV products/companies. What they care about is: - Being seen as a new and hip way to do a thing - Making sure their

I think this criticism can applied to most SV products/companies. What they care about is: - Being seen as a new and hip way to do a thing - Making sure their approach scales to lots of users - Making the first user experience and onboarding seamless What they are willing to give up: - Long positive term user outcomes - Sustainability and supporting complex user needs It seems their goal is to extract value from the users by promising them a better/easier to use/cheaper product then hooking them and stringing them along until the users grow frustrated enough. I'd list some examples of this exact business model, but there's too many to count, and I'm sure most people here won't have any trouble coming up with some of their own.