The author recently went full time on their Marginalia search engine, AFAIK it's a team size of 1, so it's the farthest away from any enshittification risk. Au contraire, like you say: it's at these sizes where you make jewels. Where creativity, ingenuity and vision shines.
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A bootstraped company can resist enshitification indefinitely, but if it gets any investment, resisting it becomes harder and harder up to the point where a publicly traded one can't resist it at all.
It could be it’s resolved though funding them, or getting more people across it. Anything to help mitigate the risk.
Or don't, I guess the world needs its mindless drones, that discourage everybody else from taking the leap and following their dreams.
I joke, but a lot of people just want to show up and do the bare minimal until quitting time. Disturbingly, many seem employed in customer facing positions.
To be fair, if they’re paying minimum wage, the employer has the same attitude towards the employees.