[AceJohnny2]

Tangentially, it's kinda funny how people really don't realize how much websites/companies/social system implement user-unfriendly behavior because of scammers or other bad actors. (Admittedly, it's something that I also did not understand when I was younger and more naive. Hell, I had to explain this to my 70y-old parent just a few weeks ago!)

The price of success is you then need to deal with moderation in some form. (and on that note: "it is easier to automate bad behavior than it is to police it")

Right now, "enshittification" is (rightly) on many people's minds, but before that the reason any company makes a process difficult is because some assholes ruined it for the rest of us.

[AceJohnny2]

And, at the risk of getting too philosophical, this is also the story of life.

Parasitism is the reason things are as they are. But we got Sex out of it [1], so that's nice? Maybe?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5204169/