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’m some people. Yes, it was about 2012, 2013, in my lesser populated area where we were 10 to 15 years behind in tech. But sometimes I think earlier depending on the tech. I have made this comment on Lemmy so much people probably know me for it so I’m not gonna detail it much more.
It was peak tech before it got gross. Yes there was corpo shit, but it hadnt infiltrated every single aspect of life. There was less surveillance because it wasnt technically possible yet. There was still physical media. There were less subscriptions and if there were, they were actually decent. Social media was still eh, people weren’t absolutely addicted like now (due to corporate addiction tactics and dark patterns). You could fucking talk to someone without them looking at their phone.
Tech is also now WAY too overpowered (and expensive) for normal folk, and so programming lean is straight out the window. Programs and webpages have more bloat than ever and are never going back. You can do 99% of your daily tasks on a 2013 PC with Linux thats actually programmed efficiently, probably with 4 GB of ram. Now, win 11 needs 8GB just to run in the background. Trash.
So yes,I stand by the fact tech has gone downhill very fast, due to capitalism.
One minor thing, I do think vr tech is cool and fun. About the only new thing I find interesting besides emulation .