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Also adding that software only being inflexible due to being mass-produced is the state of the pre-Enshittification era that we already left behind.

Since the last decade or so at the latest, software is often designed as an explicit means of power over users and applications are made deliberately inflexible to, e.g. corece users to watch ads, purchase goods or services or simply stay at the screen for longer than intended.

(Even that was already the case in niches, especially "shareware". But in a sense, all commercial software is shareware now)