In truth: platforms either evolve their user demographics or they die with them. Cory’s arguments feel reminiscent of Douglas Adams’ use of the Shoe Event Horizon to explain the fall of a planet and it’s culture, which (in the radio series) Adams both sets up & knocks down people who are caught up in the mythos of socioeconomic exploitation of the proletariat when in fact “all they need to do is wait”:

“[EXECUTIVE] … Only one, tiny little thing wrong here – they’re not making money for the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation.  So, on the far side of their moon, we set up a Dolmansaxlil Shoe Shop Intensifier Ray. And suddenly the people are gripped by an insane, irrational desire to build Shoe Shops! Ha! In every road, on every street corner, in every city shopping precinct, shoe shop after shoe shop.”

[NARRATOR] … And the curious fact is that the Shoe Shop Intensifier Ray mentioned mere seconds ago is, in actuality, a phoney – designed to make Dolmansaxlil Executives feel they’re doing something excitingly aggressive when, in fact, all they need to do is wait. The Shoe Event Horizon is now a firmly established and rather sad economic phenomenon, which in future times will be taught as part of the basic middle school “Life, the Universe, and Everything” syllabus.

via https://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio11.htm

Cory’s interview and his take is at:

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/04/1222040458/amazon-google-facebook-twitter-social-media-online