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Considering it is free to use, with streaming, voice/video calling , it surprises me that the enshitification didn't start earlier.
They tried their best to make Nitro succeed first before turning to other methods of making money.
The paradoxical demand of ever growing profits made this unavoidable anyways.
To a degree, yes. But a non-public company doesn't usually have that "obligation" for ever-growing profit. Unfortunately, Discord's goal does seem to be to eventually get an IPO.