My only counterpoint is that people have always moved to the next thing the web has to offer once the old thing has become stagnant/particularly shitty and friends/'influencers' (in the more general sense) move too. Remember that one message board? MySpace? Nexopia, if you were a teenage Canadian at the right time (or predator, I guess)? ICQ? MSN? All once very popular, all now relics of a bygone age. And truly old heads will have reference points going even further back.

There's hope. Granted, we have far more people online than there were during previous shifts like these, and it at least feels like people are more willing to put up with bullshit from their online spaces than they used to be. But there's still hope.