@kolev

@serge what you say about your thought process seems to be common reasoning, but to me it's wishful thinking at best

it's hard to believe that anyone who is kept artificially information-deprived about a program will be able to get ahead of its maker with it. even if at some point in time someone might get more value from it than what the maker extracts, the maker, who can control all the parameters of the engagement once it gains control over the user, will proceed to adjust them so as to extract any value the user expected to make.

this is even more noticeable in the enshittocene, wherein users can't even keep on running older versions of programs they carefully chose, as providers corral them to settings in which the maker can impose changes or cut users off in a whim.

it's not a game anyone can reasonably expect to win while playing a role of subjugated user