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Yeah, it has a very specific meaning, and people are now using it to mean "things becoming shitty". Just because "shit" is the base word doesn't mean that's what the whole word means.
Enshittification doesn't mean "thing gets shittier"? Who knew?!
No, it doesn't.
From Wikipedia:
From the guy who coined the term itself:
That's just listing the whys and hows of "things get shittier ".
Being a pedant is never a good look. You're missing the larger point. The same corporate impulse that drives platform decay ripples out to things like UX design. And that impulse is: the customer doesn't matter anymore, we already got your money, only what we want matters.
Being intentionally ignorant is never a good look.