and not shockingly people put up with this, because discord at first was objectively a good and simple chat application. Now that everyone is locked in, now they're now tempting their user base to pay a subscription for chat software
people need to start looking for alternatives, because discord is either going to get way worse or not exist at all in the coming years. The only reason they've been up for so long is because VC investors keep pouring money into this company
"the alternatives suck" yeah and discord sucks too. Their mobile app (especially for android) sucks and is borderline unusable and them constantly shoving paid services into your face is horrid.
and, as a user of said alternatives, they don't suck as much as modern day discord does