Half decade? Its been getting worse for as long as I’ve been conscious.
The tipping point from steady improvement to steady enshittification is just post the 2008 recession. As soon as the financial incentives were put in for growth (2009+) the trend shifted hard to value extraction from a captive audience.
how old are you? smartphones are strictly better than no smartphones or no mobile phones. internet is better than no internet. etc.
YouTube is better than no YouTube. Wikipedia is better than no Wikipedia. But Google today is way worse than first decade Google.
There's curves to all these things. It just feels like we're accelerating on the downslope of a lot of them right now.
Eh. I understand the vibe, but so many millions of things have gotten so, so much better in my lifetime.
We could spend all day trying to list them, if we tried.
The tipping point from steady improvement to steady enshittification is just post the 2008 recession. As soon as the financial incentives were put in for growth (2009+) the trend shifted hard to value extraction from a captive audience.
how old are you? smartphones are strictly better than no smartphones or no mobile phones. internet is better than no internet. etc.
YouTube is better than no YouTube. Wikipedia is better than no Wikipedia. But Google today is way worse than first decade Google.
There's curves to all these things. It just feels like we're accelerating on the downslope of a lot of them right now.
Eh. I understand the vibe, but so many millions of things have gotten so, so much better in my lifetime.
We could spend all day trying to list them, if we tried.