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The enshitification will continue until there isn't any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
Rent seeking. It's called rent seeking. People keep calling it "enshitification" as if this is a new thing.
Enshittification is distinct, as a slide from genuinely free, to abusive toward users at the hands of capital, to having a stranglehold on both users and capital. Simultaneously a monopoly and a monopsony. (And anyone bickering about how mono- those have to be before the word qualifies can take it up with my middle finger.)
Rent seeking is just a part of enshitification