C.<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> </p><p>This seems to be a common thread among the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/footgun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footgun</span></a> incidents they've been experiencing for years. They don't seem to consider how a product <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/shutdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shutdown</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rename" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rename</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/launch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>launch</span></a>, major UI <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>change</span></a>, or some other action will look from the user's point of view.</p><p>Are they just taking the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/userbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>userbase</span></a> for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/granted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>granted</span></a>? Pure obliviousness? Management incentives that discourage it?</p><p>A lot of the time I think I'd like to be a fly on the wall when these decisions are being made.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a></p>