"Thanks, Candy Christian! Your final paragraph is a succinct, clear, non-confrontational statement of something I've been groping my way towards articulating myself. Furthermore, the first sentence of that paragraph states your point in a way that ties this instance to far wider problems with social media (where too many people get a too-high portion of their information) and "design" as a "profession" (which at its worst drives unnecessary consumption by producing a never-ending succession of trivial tweaks to already perfectly fine products in order to sell more stuff). The Crucible scraper is no iPhone 13 Pro GS Quad™ but the same forces are at play in both. "