Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.
I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
At one point insurance was an important innovation that, along with other financial developments like joint stock companies, enabled capital-intensive, high risk/high reward endeavors in ways that weren't nearly as possible before. It's just that that point was in the late middle ages.