[SleekoNiko]

> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time.

This is somewhat tangential, but I feel like this happens often, as internal power and culture shifts away from being developer-driven to consumer- or manager-driven.

This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.

[Godel_unicode]

A lot of music streaming providers get to pay less for radio plays than for user-directed plays, which in turn drives a lot of that behavior.

[conductr]

The average user at scale is nothing like the average early adopter user. Developers tend to be early adopters of tech products.

[elefanten]

Seems quite related to the standard 'company lifecycle'

And, to your point, not every company follows one. But most do.

[Jensson]

What big company didn't end up manager driven after a couple of decades? Even Google ultimately went down that path.

[rjzzleep]

> This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.

It happened to Twitter didn't it?