I don't think it's so much that investment does that as leaving your competencies. I've been working at a private firm for years now. The culture is excellent and we use the products we make. We also don't make our product do every last thing it could possibly do, nor do we support every last thing our product in theory could: we focus on what our customers want and buy now. You can't use what we make for everything, but what you can use it for, we lead our industry in.
We've grown tremendously but we're still sub-200 in head count and want it to stay that way. We're rolling in profits because we keep our operation lean and responsive.
It seems to me the enshittification happens when you try and offer a service to the entire world and can't manage to succeed at that unless everyone and their mother uses it, which itself requires shit tons of employees and IT resources and datacenters, and if it doesn't work out, it all goes in the bin.
We've grown tremendously but we're still sub-200 in head count and want it to stay that way. We're rolling in profits because we keep our operation lean and responsive.
It seems to me the enshittification happens when you try and offer a service to the entire world and can't manage to succeed at that unless everyone and their mother uses it, which itself requires shit tons of employees and IT resources and datacenters, and if it doesn't work out, it all goes in the bin.