I used to work for Unity. What used to be a culture of “users first” was replaced with top-down decision making based on balance sheets of made-up numbers. There are a lot of good, well-meaning people there who I’m certain would have presented well-reasoned arguments against this new policy, and I’m equally certain they were overridden by C-level management who are in turn being micro-managed by VC board members whose only goal is “make stock price go up”.
