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The bane of the public company. Once you get big enough that you're no longer able to sustain 20% yoy growth your investors will force you to leave no stone unturned.
They've already put in telemetry
Next they'll put in ads
Then they'll sell subscriptions to get rid of the ads
Then the subscription will become the minimum viable product
Then they'll put ads back in
Then they get Premium subscriptions
Then they put ads in there and release the Ultimate subscriptions
etc etc