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by isaacremuant 234 days ago
Someone's getting promoted out of it and the investment money loves it. So it doesn't matter.

The hype outpaces the actual value in many cases and that's why we get the shit we get.

A good example are YouTube's unavoidable auto translations. No one bilingual user wants that. It would be extremely easy to make it optional but it won't boost the numbers of the BS metric being pushed internally.