And what makes you think the story with Discord is going to be any different?

Discord is the core product for the company that owns it. Skype was just another product for Microsoft. So the owners of Discord have a much stronger incentive to keep it functional.

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.

Their primary incentive is for it to be lucrative.

I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that right now, it just works. And when it doesn't and something else "just works" people will use that.

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.