Clever bait

I dont know what to say, its my opinion. I don’t think anyone was reading my comment as a statement of fact. I’m just a random person online, no ones treating me as an objective authority.

Other users have different opinions and are free to up and downvote my comment or post a different take and those can be upvoted.

If you disagree with / are interested in having me elaborate on my reasons for feeling like the show is losing itself I worry that might get into spoilers territory though I’m not in principle against that conversation in the right context.

Maybe just leave a comment saying “I don’t think it’s losing itself, it’s been consistently good this season” or something like that and let the upvotes do their thing?

But you started basically from a place of “you’re not the creator so you aren’t allowed to say that” and I cant really respond to that beyond pointing out I am allowed an opinion on it and that’s not a really productive way to open a discussion.

"Almost heaven, West Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains, Shanendoah River.

Life is old there, older than the trees.

Younger than the mountains, growing like the breeze.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong"

What a bizarre reply…

Did you create the show and the lore?

No.

Then how can you say that it’s “losing itself”?

I am able to form opinions on the show because I have watched it.

I’m pretty sure Ben Stiller, and the rest, knew where the show was going to go in Season 2 from the start.

Oh, yeah no I’m not quoting Ben Stiller good catch, this is my own opinion I formed by watching the show.

Just because it’s going in a different direction than you thought, doesn’t mean it’s “losing itself.”

Agreed. It’s losing itself for other reasons.

Does that help?

That seems unnecessarily harsh.

I find the built in controls with visual studio supremely convenient.

After using git init --bare for the remote repo I use the built in git controls for branching and switching out as well as syncing and pushing. Why not, the button is right there and it’s literally faster.

Its losing itself a bit but still quite good.

What about roman numeral i?

But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?

“Times changing” here seems to be the central trick to the argument.

What’s interesting about enshittification is that as the company gets more and more profitable there seems to be more and more excuses as to why these free features are so costly.

It’s very easy for a company to put out a statement that times are changing and that the free tier is unaffordable. Is that always true? Who’s to say?

I’m sure sometimes it is true but the doubt is why arguments like this will never go away.

Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?

What other term than incompetent would you use for a company that puts out a free product, attracts a bunch of free users, abruptly cuts access for those features and puts it behind a paywall, and then acts surprised when those same users complain about it.

If you want to make a business move go ahead, it’s your right, but accept the complaints from your user base you predictably pissed off.

Then again, isn’t that what people used to do with StackOverflow?

Yes, one of the major issues with StackOverflow that answerers complained about a lot was the “XY problem.”.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem

Where you’re trying to do X, but because you’re inexperienced you erroneously decide Y must be the solution even though it is a dead end, and then ask people how to do Y instead of X.

ChatGPT drives that problem up to 11 because it has no problems enabling you to focusing on Y far longer than you should be.