sofas in the Dar Bey Coll Cafeteria
Netflix in 2012 […] had a simple but massive catalog of movies and shows, solid recommendations, and basic library management. Compared to my limited local media library it was great. You could actively tune your tastes and rate things with a 5-star system.
Netflix today is very different. It’s not a library—it’s an experience. Instead of reliably showing me what I “have” and recommending what I might like, it shuffles content on each interaction, sometimes changing the cover images of shows in real time, like some black-market charlatan. […]
Spotify in 2015 […] was like my iTunes library, but with millions more tracks. […] Spotify today is… basically Netflix. An inconsistent stream of ever-changing content, weak library tools, and an endless barrage of podcasts.
Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch. It’s like Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution where unrelated crustaceans all evolve into something vaguely crab-shaped.
