It's amazing how often, when I look into why something turned to junk (consumer products, tools, etc.), it turns out that it's because a PE firm or a PE-like software company acquired the thing and then made an extremely short-term optimized move that wiped out most of the value and potential revenue of the thing, e.g., I was looking into why a formerly active automotive forum is now a ghost town and it turned out they got bought by VerticalScope, which has apparently killed ~1k forums?