It’s just PR for his company, Athena or whatever the fuck is called. The real and simple answer is: employers want to pay workers the minimum necessary, ideally zero, while extracting as much work they can from them. The natural consequence is that the smartest workers will job-hopping until they can, to work less for more money. Long story short: it’s how capitalism work.

I uninstalled Reddit

What?

I’d be worried about breaking compatibility across the lemmyverse.

That is precisely the reason why you are not “free to add new features without having to battle over philosophies”.