I don’t know if the author here is intentionally clickbaiting or somehow ignorant about the scale Uber is operating at.

This was particularly egregious:

> If you’re building a system that makes the economics of your company impossible, you’re better off not building it.

If I’m understanding the timeline here, Uber replaced this system in 2019, and saved 8 million doing so. In 2019 their revenue was something like 13 billion dollars. In no world was this system making the economics of Uber impossible.