shrikant, 
Just realized, the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish philosophy doesn't actually end with Extinguish.
There is a 4th stage.
Extinction.
Every single product that has been #enshittified has inevitably gone extinct.
It happened to MySpace, to Digg, and everything in the Google Graveyard. It is happening to Twitter and Reddit.
The only person worse off at the end of this cycle is the consumer.
We need to force companies to open-source products that they decide to sunset.
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