and it's not even strange that "people are starting to put 2 and 2 together" is totally normal when it's been going worse than moderately bad for 1 1/2 decades ... feels like Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen had a twin nobody ever knew of and the revelation came way away waaaaay too late ...

like, why would you outsource something so imperative to people who do not give a damn about your company and who have less than anything competence in your field and just go "by some book" ...

20 years of IT build by people who just do their job because nobody gave a fuck about the result because some dude condemned "longtermism" a cool euphemism in times of climate change, privacy vacuum tubes, punch card shaped security, and of course mass x social media "nudging" based on 90% and rising probabilities of verified success with little to no resistance because click bait presidents are good for business?