Adding four random digits to people's names was a brilliant solution to two common problems with usernames (users wanting the same username and usernames of notable personalities getting leaked), and now they're just going to the exact same system everyone else uses with all of its attendant problems? Fuck off
It's top down. The bigger a company gets the more and more every employee and project needs to be quantified into some number that can be put on a balance sheet or quarterly earnings
Revenue and profit must keep going up every single quarter. Growth must continue to be infinite even if the market is already almost completely saturated by a monopoly. It doesn't matter if a product is perfect. It needs to make more money thus change must happen to the product one way or another
There's also, i don't know what to call, it, but I get the impression most executives, especially since Reagan when being an executive started to be a profession unto itself, don't know or care what the companies they nominally run do. The actual function of the company is to make short term profits for shareholders and they don't give a shit what the product is., So they just try to squeeze blood from a stone and that's often destructive to the company's actual product because there are basically psychopathic paperclip maximizers jerking people around to make an arbitrary number go up instead of skilled managers trying to support the product.
https://youtu.be/7j1850-qlm8