They're trying really hard now. Constant attempts to introduce half-baked AI features that the meta community doesn't want. Posts from staff (i.e., actual employees of Stack Exchange, Inc.; not the unpaid moderators) on the meta site rarely if ever get a positive score in the last few years.

Yeah I agree, it did fail, but it's not worse because the people running it were trying to ring money out of it's users. Maybe they did take their eye off the ball trying to make it something else though

Probably about https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overfl... and the ensuing shitstorm