It's way worse than that; if you're not constantly adjusting a thing, higher ups will see you as no longer necessary. Making incremental changes, even to something that's already refined, is a necessity to staying employed.

Developing a prefect product is counter to retaining a job long term.

i love my followers and the people who stay and watch my content, but tiktok just kinda shoves new videos down 300 random, non-following people's throats really fast, then stops promoting it entirely after a certain number of views.

& most ppl scroll immediately, without actually watching.

I actually miss the days when people would ask you stupid, googleable questions in the replies instead of looking it up themselves, since now they look it up themselves using fucking AI