Prunebutt

The first gen switch is really easy to hack. Once someone in the supply-line gets their hands on a cartridge, it's already online.

Counterexamples: Netflix without ads, Gamepass, Tinder.

If that seems "smartypants" to you, your intellectual standards are set pretty damn low.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't insult me. The smartypants part was that you "um-actually"d me. Not that you stated something too "intellectual".

I never said "that's because of enshittification". I said "that's enshittification". My statement didn't contain any description of causal effects.

Only if it's that kind of smartypants criticism.

Do you commonly criticize comments that don't issue a historical paper on the background of a meme?

I don't think they consider that "portable".

I'm giving the name of a process. When someone asks for the title of a book, I don't start with Guttenberg's printing press.

I'd say that pricing is part of the deal which can get worse. Claiming that it's not enshittification is useless nitpicking, IMHO.