I’m interested in companies who make their products deliberately worse, like Mozilla with Firefox, even when warned of the likely result very clearly.

What’s the reason for this and why is it so hard to divert from an obviously bad path? Well, if a person can die of ideology a company certainly can do so as well. I think that’s the simplest explanation: the leaders and many of the developers of the company had an ideology, it did not comport with the actual world, and corporate death will be the result.

Further examination is interesting but that’s the core problem.