Your comment is entirely fact-free, it's almost impressive. There's no point refuting anything because it's clear nothing will change your mind, and I don't have to anyway because it's all been dismantled piece by piece already.
I doubt they deprioritize websites, but if they over-prioritize sites that conform to their SEO guidelines and host their ads, then the net effect is the same.
And I don’t see why a quality website wouldn’t keep a viewer on site as long as a poor quality website.
Say you ask a question looking for a definitive answer (meaning it's a question that has one). You find a website that tells you that answer right up front. No fluff, no scrolling, no ads, you're in, you're out. You find another site loaded with a introduction that talks a lot and says little, then you scroll past some ads, then you find another paragraph of text, and somewhere buried in between wishy washy word salad, you find your answer.
To Google, the second website is better, because you were "engaged" for a longer amount of time, and maybe you clicked their ad as you scrolled. That page is gonna rank higher in their results. The former page, by consequence, is gonna come second.
Now let's say you have 10 websites like the latter, and 1 like the former. What rank is the former website gonna come in Google search?
That's the thing about secessionists: they think they're the only ones who can claim "rightful ownership" of... anything. Women? Minorities? Taxes? Land? They're all just property, and as such, ought to be theirs.
I've seen the headline "Denuvo removed from Game" so many times that I can only imagine that the publisher just doesn't see the point of paying for it after sales drop below a certain point.
You know what, hot take? Shout out to Denuvo, they made a DRM scheme so easy to remove that every publisher inevitably does it at some point or another.
I think more likely than Valve going under is Valve getting bought or going public. Both would result in the new owner (a megacorp in their own right, or greedy shareholders, respectively) turning the system into shit to squeeze more money out of it. And new DRM would be foisted onto the system regardless.
When I started working I went in with a plan to upgrade and modernize everything I touch. I still believe that to be the case, or like… my “purpose”(as an employee not a person).
I mean this with as much respect to you OP as I can possibly put into words, and if your therapist has already touched on this, absolutely ignore everything I say and listen to them.
I have been both been this person and dealt with this person. Believe me when I say that this behavior engenders little love from management and coworkers alike. You can quickly gain a bad reputation by trying to modernize everything you see. That reputation can be (meanly) described many different ways, from try-hard to kiss-ass.
Developers like all human beings are subject to emotions and projection. They see you running around trying to replace the things they built, and they may conflate that with trying to replace them. They feel insecure, then they project that insecurity onto you - it makes you look insecure trying to prove yourself to the company. (Maybe you have fine relationships with your coworkers, maybe they admire this trait, take me with a grain of salt.)
Managers begin to think that if they let you replace all their developers' tools, they will have to rely on you and you alone to support all those tools. They may worry you try to gatekeep your tools, or become a bottleneck for new development. So you slowly lose their trust.
Don't let your career suffer for this. There are few reasons to risk your reputation, your chance at promotion, the goodwill of your peers, and more: "using the latest and greatest" is not one of those reasons. Sometimes, following the crowd is fine.
Springboot apps, create-react-apps, codebases in c and c++, no kubernetes, little to no cloud.
Now, speaking as a developer instead of an armchair psychoanalyst, I don't see why these traits or lack thereof make for bad software. Nor does it make you a lesser developer for working with them. It entirely depends on your industry, the applications, the users, security interests, available recruitable talent, and many more factors.
In addition to reportedly making $170,000 per year from 4,050 subscribers on his Patreon fundraising account (before he recently deleted it), in February 2022, Somerton launched an IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign that raised $65,000 to start Telos Productions, an LGBTQ+ film production studio.
Of course he does, he quotes Marcus Aurelius in his profile. May as well just block him and move on.