The perfect word to describe modern tech in 2024. Your cloud provider just raised prices by 40% while simultaneously removing features you actually used and adding three new AI integrations nobody asked for.
Remember when software just... worked? When you bought a license and owned it? When APIs didn't deprecate every six months? When "updates" meant improvements instead of "we removed offline mode and now require an internet connection to open a text file"?
The tech industry discovered they can charge you more for less and call it "optimization" or "streamlining the user experience." Your $200/month SaaS subscription now has a worse UI than the $50 version from three years ago, but hey, at least the loading spinner is smoother.
It's the circle of tech life: disrupt the market with a cheap, good product → gain monopoly → jack up prices → cut costs → profit. Rinse and repeat until developers are paying $99/month for a code editor that used to be free.
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