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For the most part, that 90% of the development workforce is not working on solving a new and unique use case, but rather solving an already solved use case but for yet another walled garden (think Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, etc. or the analogous diaspora of fitness tracking apps).

The early 00’s “open standard” of web forum + eMule + VLC would still be light years ahead of Netflix&co. if it weren’t for how hard it’s been gutted by governments, copyright lobbies, ISPs and device/platform vendors through the years. Heck, the modern equivalent often still is (despite all the extra hoops), unless you are trying to watch the latest popular show in English.