[type0]

The change in company culture is probably real. Just an anecdata but I feel like over the years radhatters are behaving more and more corporatish compared with how it was years ago, then again that can be just the "climate" of the Internet nowadays.

[lalatendum]

That's the side effect of a company getting bigger. When a company hires a lot more and trying expand it is very hard hire only upstream contributors.