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Because sometimes you can make more money by reducing costs and making something shittier (especially if you do it covertly), compared to increasing prices.

I suspect more customers are lost a lot faster when you increase prices, compared to enshittifying the product. It's also a lot more directly attributable to an action, and thus easier for an executive to be blamed if they choose the former over the latter.

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