The deeper issue that nobody seems to be picking up here is the fact that here was a billion dollar industry that was dismantled by the people within because they socially disliked one another. Professional failure of the most human and petty and pathetic kinds. This is humanity, we'd rather abandon and destroy than interact with those we socially dislike.
If you don't even trust that someone respects some basic limits you don't want to be engaged in a fight for the profit from some project every year. Getting nothing out of the project is not the worst outcome.
yeah sadly both things can be true, the data we value for privacy is incredibly sticky, and the data with sentimental value to us is incredibly fragile.
I thought about this idea a while ago: handwritting is also important for ideographic system like CJK, because that's how new character are invented and circulate.
