> it's lot easier to add new capabilities, than rethink existing capabilities. So each product becomes a collection of abilities, without actually having unified point of view.

This is a a very good and succinct summarization.

What I'm also observing recently also is that pretty much every product tries to expand to do things that completely different products used to do, and become a mega-product-for-everything. It's like a Zawinski's Law on steroids.

In some ways it feels like exactly what you'd do if you wanted to tank your product over the coming years. I look back at the last 20 years or so, and what I see over and over is that one player in a space gets huge, keeps adding features, loses sight of what makes them a good market fit, and then 10 small upstarts swoop in to bring back the opinionated or simple view again. One or two win, and then eventually they repeat the same mistake.

I'm not trying to buy a labyrinth.

Reddit used to be a place you posted links.

Then images.

Then videos.

Now there is games in it.

And you can follow users instead of communities now.

And instagram has videos.

And pinterest has videos.

And imgur has videos.

And youtube has games.

And tiktok has longer videos.

And twitter also added images, videos, and then longer posts.

And tumblr has added videos, then communities that you can follow instead of users.

It feels like if a social media survives long enough it just turns into facebook.