@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us A more cynical systematic take: the Google we liked was a decoy. Search could exist in that form only while growth (not profit) was the focus. Once it became the business, the incentives inevitably shifted. That’s the VC playbook now: subsidize growth, then enshittify.

Zero-rate money made it feel normal. We got used and even entitled to “free and good.”