People will respond to incentives. They had an incentive to host their code in a place that easily let them do things that were extremely high friction before.
People aren't morally reprehensible because they prefer convenience over hardship. People like using easy things, and they like making money. This means that people will make easy things so other people will give them money. If you don't like it, make easy things that work the way you like them, run them ethically, and don't sell them to anyone.
> People will respond to incentives....People aren't morally reprehensible because they prefer convenience over hardship
To clarify my point isn't that anyone is morally reprehensible. My point is that using a free VC-backed service is like selling an implied option. You don't know when they're going to invoke the option, but eventually they will. And often it will be when you've gotten used to the income from selling the option.
It's not a question of morality or judgment, it's just meant to be a description of what the game we're playing is.
> If you don't like it, make easy things that work the way you like them, run them ethically, and don't sell them to anyone.
Sure, but nobody knows this. Everyone just thinks that things will be as they are now. I don't think the average developer knows what enshittification is, but Doctorow really nailed that one.
People aren't morally reprehensible because they prefer convenience over hardship. People like using easy things, and they like making money. This means that people will make easy things so other people will give them money. If you don't like it, make easy things that work the way you like them, run them ethically, and don't sell them to anyone.