>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices.

LOL, as if Firefox provided a stable API to extensions

I think that's the inherent catch-22 of having a big API. You end up in a situation where you can't change things for fear of breaking the API, but you end up also not being able to hold the API stable for fear of not being able to change things. So you end up stagnating and breaking things all at the same time.

Do you think there's any good solution to that problem?

I think companies make brand new products whenever that happens. No legacy baggage. If it gets popular enough then the old software gets killed off.

We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?

Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

How's aging cyclical?

> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

I agree. It's so anno...

For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!

I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

Domains aren't free, they're limited.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of domains out there without SPF records, there's really no lack of domains to abuse.

Not to mention all the websites that get hacked or the uber-cheap registrars.