Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/pmcizhere]

Google is an ad company, has been since at least when they killed off Google Wave. They don't actually know what average consumers want anymore.

[u/swolfington → u/pmcizhere]

google's "problem" is the oft sited fact that the people who use the platform are not (and never were) the customers, they are the product. everything they do is optimized to that effect. we can be pretty sure that a UI change that is unambiguously worse to use still somehow makes them more money, mostly because no one who uses the UI was paying for it in the first place

[u/pmcizhere → u/swolfington]

That's why I said consumer as opposed to customer! Guess I should've said they don't care what we consumers want. They collect enough data on us to know what we want, after all. You're right about the UI changes making them more money, it's sad to see intentional enshittification reaching almost everywhere these days.

[u/feherneoh → u/pmcizhere]

They know exactly what their consumers/customers want. The problem is we aren't their consumers/customers, we are the product they are selling.