[Aurornis]

Do you have any evidence that this is happening? Or is it just a hypothetical threat you're proposing?

These companies aren't operating in a vacuum. Most of their users could change providers quickly if they started degrading their service.

[falloutx]

They have contracts with companies, and those companies wont be able to change quickly. By the time those contracts will come back for renewals it will already be too late, their code becoming completely unreadable by humans. Individual devs can move quickly but companies don't.