> You speak as if these things are unrelated.

State the connection, because it seems like your next argument is going to be "the government didn't stop them", as though that's their job.

> Increasingly, we don't:

Think of a single enshittified product that matters to you for which there is no alternative but to use it.

This also all pales in contrast to the conveniences and improvements afforded over time. You can now access and stream basically any music you want for free, for example. Television sets are now commodities, which tend to be cheaper adjusted for inflation. Etc etc. So the rhetoric about enshittification doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

> State the connection, because it seems like your next argument is going to be "the government didn't stop them", as though that's their job.

It's not their job to break up monopolies and ever-shifting financial abstractions a few steps ahead of the law that enable monopolistic behavior?

> Think of a single enshittified product that matters to you for which there is no alternative but to use it.

* Mobile devices and their respective walled gardens if you expect to do something as simple as access your own bank account or reliably receive text messages

* Social media which only really works when lots of people are on any given platform

* Food that is safe, nutritious, and sustainable

> Television sets are now commodities, which tend to be cheaper adjusted for inflation.

Oh neat, they didn't enshitify the legacy propaganda client devices yet. How nice of them, and quite the measure of progress.