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keedatoday at 7:08 AM1 replyview on HN

That's more the fate of consumer services though, where the product is typically given away for free and the need for revenues and growth eventually leads to the enshittification you describe. TFA is about SaaS products, which tend to be subscription-based and so usually are immune from those pressures.

SaaS products do have their own problems sometimes, such as feature creep and bloat and uptime, but those are less insidious.


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theturtletalkstoday at 7:49 AM

I disagree, business SaaS also gets enshittified mainly because of feature creep like you mentioned. Business SaaS starts by solving problems for 1 type of business, but as they try to cover more use cases, the product gets worse for the original use-case.