The author reeks of self importance and what he thinks is moral superiorioty. Was too hard to read.

To the point of the post, Amazon engages in lawful tactics to conquer the retail market. Consumers are incentivelzed to get the best value out of their money. If you want change legislation is needed. Your approach of shaming people for using their services isn't scalable. And I also don't agree with plenty of the premises in your article but it doesn't matter.

Mediocrity was here a long time before AI. In every field. And most people don't care. But yeah, it might get worse now that LLM output is also mediocre and they enable us to produce much more mediocre products.

If you could make it as fast and reliable as ethernet you will be even richer. Cabling and getting those right at the scale of big cloud providers is a costly matter. Not to talk about technician errors losing these providers a lot of money which you will be able to solve.