Then why even have this discussion in the first place? You weren’t expecting any reasonable responses to it, after all.

Do you only do stuff where you expect the outcome to be good?

Perhaps they did it for the off chance of a good response.

But then it'd be false that the internet is the wrong place. This person's account is from 2011, which shows they don't believe what they claim.

I think they are playing devil's advocate in the most irritating way. Good things, and good venues, are worth preserving against enshittification.

Let's not blandly accept this. Fight against it, even if it's a losing battle.

"It was always like this" is false, anyway.