It often feels as though almost everything on the internet post 2000 or so has been an enormous bait and switch. Build a good service people like, get a lot of people hooked on it, and then gradually fuck it up in an attempt to generate some kind of revenue.<p>I, personally, hate it. Its depressing to see a technology so full of promise (seem to, anyway) regress. Become less magical, less useful. Its no wonder young people are skeptical of capitalism - it seems to literally be eating the goose. Not even the goose that laid the golden egg - just the goose, in hopes there might be a golden egg inside.