It still sucks at giving notifications on time.

"The Library."

Well yeah, if they were truly going to follow the "don't be evil" motto they'd have to give up capitalism, which ain't gonna happen.

Yes and technology has gotten a lot better too. The younger generation has had technology that more or less "just works." They didn't have to learn how to troubleshoot just to be able to use it as intended like previous generations have had to.

The problem now is that these more recent platforms worked to make themselves harder to replace, so when it came time to replace them, there was more resistance.

Things have become more centralized and people just want tech to work. So when things like the fediverse need patients while "stuff gets worked out" they are not used to it.