I don’t think folks remember how truly shitty Nintendo‘s online service was when it was free. The fact is these companies will not put meaningful resources into them unless they are directly generating revenue. I hate it, but that’s reality.
Blame alphabet, meta, and all of their contemporaries for making the Internet shitty and unusable. SEO strategies are one of the worst things to ever happen to the Internet.
You’re just being racist and try to make it sound like a tech issue. No amount of appealing to a rose-tinted memory of what the Internet used to be is going to obfuscate that.
This is terrible advice when you’re encouraging people to open up their network to the broader public without full understanding of what they’re doing.