[donmcronald]

> I'm taking a "wait and see" approach with Bitwarden.

I won’t. The optics look bad and that alone is enough to show the leadership is either hostile to users or too inept to understand why their recent actions signal a change away from what people value in their product. If they don’t understand or care about the same things as the community / customers, there’s no reason to think they’ll make choices that continue to be a good value proposition for their customers.

The only thing that’s going to stop tech companies from pulling this crap is if a hint of private money coming in to ruin everything ends up ruining things before everyone gets to cash in. Basically, a mass exodus and bankruptcy would be the only outcome that makes the next company think twice about using the enshitiffication playbook.

We need some companies built around fair value instead of extortion and they need to be run like Steam. Steam has an unbreakable hold on gaming because they’ve never screwed their users.