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    My thoughts exactly. When all of this started, we've tried to think of it as incompetence (applying Hanlon's razor) - which would have been a shame, while leaving hope that the company would learn -, but now it becomes apparent that this course has been set intentionally. It is no longer imaginable that the decision-makers don't know where this is going. Commented Dec 9, 2025 at 22:59
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    Full agreement with the last paragraph. I thought so too. Once traffic starts to go down, one may think that that's it and there will be no reversal ever anyway. Then the only question is how to get the most out of the traffic for as long (or short) that it lasts, which is different from a typical more long-term oriented business. Commented Dec 10, 2025 at 6:21
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    SE has sadly now arrived at the "eating the seed corn" stage. Attempting to squeeze out as much money as possible - and if the the site suffers long term... well, management already got their bonus, and they might even have sold it off to someone else Commented Dec 11, 2025 at 16:17