Deffo waiting for lots of people to be on it before turning up that dial.
Seems to be the standard silicon valley business model these days. The old "drug dealer outside school giving away free samples to get you hooked" we all heard about but never saw.
To a degree, yes. But a non-public company doesn't usually have that "obligation" for ever-growing profit. Unfortunately, Discord's goal does seem to be to eventually get an IPO.
Which to me shows why enshittification is so closely tied to austerity and economic downturn. For example I have a buddy who bought Discord Nitro whenever he could. But he recently got laid off and of course that was the first monthly expense he cut.