[TeMPOraL]

Even worse for the users. In this analogy, if startups are cannon fodder, users/customers are the blood that gets spilled.

Startups really should have this written on a tin: "We're are experiments to our investors. Our product is an experiment to us. We do not care about you, or helping you, and we will not change the world; our regular marketing copy is just straight-faced lie. The entire stack, from us up to investors' investors, are all running experiments on how to make money fastest."

Now, I'm (somewhat) fine with this. Let experimenters do experimenting. I just hate that the whole ecosystem is consistently lying to regular people.

[SZJX]

The startup workers as well, I guess. They take tremendous risks.

Though it would be a stretch to say they don't care nor help the users. Of course they need to keep the users hooked/get new users onboard to "grow" and get the investments. And focusing on marketing is not very reasonable since you can say the same about basically every marketing material.

Still, I guess the point is that the customers of such startups must always be prepared of the possibility of the company suddenly shutting down one day and the product ceasing to exist. That's true.