One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
@baldur yet another example of #enshittification. Whatever VC touches turns into crap, eventually. It's no longer a question of if, but when.