Article note: Academia. ML bullshit might be the bullshitiest, but from where I'm sitting, the goodheart-artifact behavior is the rule, not the exception.
Article note: No, it's worse. The more fragmented and incomplete each service becomes, the more piracy becomes an attractive option. If they spend their energy squabbling for exclusives, they all lose.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.