@mav @ewen this seems...worse, somehow. A personal violation, like a pickpocket who then tries to extort you for your stuff.

In any case, this appears to be canonical enshittifcation. Perhaps there's something axiomatic about it.

Field of Dreams style: "If you build it, and it becomes successful, eventually the assholes will come and try to make it both a target of, and an avenue for, abuse"

Asimov style: "All sufficiently successful technologies inevitably attract assholes who will try to ruin it for everyone"