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Your definition slightly off. Here it is from the guy who coined the term:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Removing features is absolutely part of enshittification.



>Then, they die.

Yeah, any day now YT is going to shut its doors.


You must have an incredible lack of imagination, the story of software is the story of mayflies.




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