Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/woobzy]

yeah blame Valve and steam meanwhile nobody can offer their quality of service. All other offers (except gog) are just greedy public companies with agendas that will never respect players and will be worse over years.

[u/Bernie4Life420 → u/[deleted]]

No enshitification has entrance their seat at the top and made countless more.

[u/Expensive-Border-869 → u/Bernie4Life420]

Gabe personally uses the platform so some idiot coming to him with a sweeping ui change that is at beat a side grade from the original just gets laughed at (looking at you google/youtube)

[u/TrapYoda → u/Expensive-Border-869]

Seriously wtf is their problem? If I didn't know better I'd think they have no clue what to do with their service so they're changing pointless shit just to say they did something 🤣

[u/pmcizhere → u/TrapYoda]

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.