[solarkraft]

Are they too spoiled by the early days of the internet when that would happen regularly because they were simply first? Does it ever still happen?

[detaro]

"spoiled" in the sense of having gone bad, maybe. It does appear this is a deeply ingrained cultural assumption they aren't getting rid of (no clue if they try). The usual meme is of course "nobody gets promoted for maintaining a not-so-successful service"...