SO is rapidly fading into irrelevance, but we’re all still writing code anyways. Seems like the problem will solve itself.

Same. It is after all their own time they are wasting, so whatever. I get paid either way.

People have options, and it’s very easy to go somewhere else. If the food isn’t better the price and demand are going to be perfectly related. Every price hike matched by a corresponding drop in sales. Zero sum game.