Doubtful. They always are optimistic how many people would subscribe, it turns out that nobody subscribes, and then it’s either them folding or speed-running enshittification and spying.

Sure, they make a new product get more venture capital shut down the old product, then wash, rinse, repeat.

There were some successful Twitter clients I think. TweetDeck was famous and ended up acquired by Twitter.

I don’t mind proprietary software - it seems it’s what a lot of people want, and I simply won’t use it.

Promoting proprietary software named “OpenSomething” should, however, be banned as false marketing.