Peak enshittification is the moment of maximum awfulness — the summit of a platform's decline where every bad decision compounds into a singularity of user contempt. It can be declared ironically when something is very bad, or genuinely when a product has clearly hit its lowest point. The 'peak' modifier borrows from 'peak X' internet grammar to mark an event as the definitive, most extreme expression of a thing. It's both a diagnosis and an elegy for what the product used to be.
Charging users to access their own data backups while simultaneously removing the free export tool is peak enshittification.
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