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This isn't enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven't captured the market enough for that. They're just panicking because they're burning cash way too fast.
That word is only used correctly about 5% of the times it is used.
Don't wanna be "that guy", but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean "greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck", then that just is what that word means now.
It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that's how she goes.
I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And the everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.
It's ironic, but I could care less. You're literally beating a dead horse.
Are suggesting the word itself has become enshittified?
Interestingly enough, not the correct use for that word lol
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Quick, we need a word for enshittified enshittification!