Fairly certain what you describe is what they meant with inflation proof, compared to a fixed price. In any case, I imagine most Patreon creators have over time adjusted their reward tiers, or gathered more Patreon supporters to keep up with how Inflation affects their costs, thus giving more to Patreon. Both the company and creators would benefit here. Instead, increasing the (average) percentage just helps the company at the cost of creators. To make their pay keep up with inflation, they still need to either increase the number of supporters or the price of rewards, so the company benefits doubly. Edit: forgot, this change is currently only for new creators. Existing accounts do not need to adjust their pricing (yet) There seem to be enough alternatives that only charge a 5% fee, so this might just lose Patreon money if enough Creators see this as a step too far.

that's not just useless defeatism, but also false. effective end to end encryption exists in multiple forms today. signal, maybe even with a custom server. matrix if the server is being ran on trusted hardware. XMPP too with the right extensions.

AI has only one problem to solve: salaries

There may be several reasons for this. If I had to guess, they found a critical flaw and had to shut it down for security reasons.

Oh sorry, my mind must have been a bit foggy when I read that. We agree 100%

you don’t need to worry about trying to enforce it ( By the simple expedient of there being essentially nothing you can enforce.

Domain or azure ad join is what I'm used to, but for personal machines and friends/family I do local accounts.

Why doesn't Amazon just sell a generic printer that works with generic toner or pigment or ink. I would buy.