How a person reacts to a feature like streaks is a both a Rorschach test and a shibboleth for product thinking.

Not anti streaks. But this sounds self serving.

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Only thing that matters is whether it works.

🤣 Of course it is. You say that like it’s a bad thing. I expect he has metrics and data about what he thinks is going to drive the growth of this platform. And, yes, then he builds features to hopefully encourage the desired behavior. Good news is that if you want what he wants then it’s good for you too. Right?