EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.
I’d say 2013 is approximately accurate. That’s about when seeking recurring income started really becoming a thing, and software started going SaaS, and renting cloud servers started taking off.
Gawd, the fucking cloud buzzword days. Not as bad as ai, still damn annoying for us nerds.