@bazkie they did a very good job of making people feel "exclusive" when it was private.. kinda what Bluesky was trying to do to less success
But like you said they filled all the sharp edges and flavor and gave folks the most digestible, bland ass food possible.. and bland ass people ate it up.
But MySpace also did itself no favors; for all the fun it definitely stopped evolving.. it was all kinda a perfect petri dish of germs and amoeba to create the perfect brain rot disease for old folks