Their primary incentive is for it to be lucrative.

Skype was the primary product of Skype Inc. They were bought by Microsoft. Since Discord is VC funded, they are probably also going to be bought up.

Why can't we stop this perennial cycle of "let's act like minions who follow the one with the shiniest object while they drive us all into destruction" and start taking responsibility for our choices and actions?

This whole thread started because someone took at jab at "old developers", and I'm really trying to avoid a rant against Gen-Z... but man it's unbelievable how conformist this generation is.

One would expect that a site called Hacker News would have an user base that does not accept the status quo, but here we are in a thread where defending "convenience" is the rule when it should be the rare exception.