Totally agreed. I was thinking about how to word it but I was giving up.

But I would consider us users to be more like an asset on their balance sheet. Not something they would care about the opinion of.

More like livestock tbh. Only instead of wool or meat or eggs being harvested, it’s mindshare and attention that they depend on

Makes me think of that scene of Neo waking up from the Matrix the first time and seeing the "battery pods"... yeah...

That's a good comparison to how I feel these days.