So this point is such an interesting and common anti-pattern on the internet though:
1. Something is or provides access to good quality content.
2. Because of this quality, it gets more and more popular.
3. As popularity grows, and commercialization takes over, the incentive becomes to make things "more accessible" or "appealing" to the "average" user. More users is always better right!?
4. This works, and quality plummets.
5. The thing begins to lose popularity. Sometimes it collapses into total unprofitability. Sometimes it remains but the core users that built the quality content move somewhere else, and then that new thing starts to offer tremendous value in comparison to the now low quality thing.
And guess what: most users are normal. Us here on HN are weird: