[fragmede]

Chatbots aside, Comcast and United Airlines continue to be big consumer businesses despite horrible customer service reputations. Socially it's bad, but economically it's hard to justify spending that much on customer support. (Those companies also enjoy semi-monopoly positions, though, so I wouldn't recommend emulating that unless you enjoy a similar position in the market.)

[vkou]

Comcast is a monopoly, with a huge barrier to entry.

People complain that UA hasn't learned anything about customer service. I am surprised that those people haven't learned anything about UA, and are still flying it. (Perhaps it's because flyers don't actually care about customer service, and will take whichever flight saves them $15.)