This is silly. People openly criticize Mozilla for their action, there is general uproar - yet company decides to ignore its "power users" and do whatever they think they should.

While this might work for some (where leader is visionary and strong), I believe that the problem is here - companies that are seeing drop in growth are fixated on getting better numbers instead of increase engagement and user value. They will forsake their core functions, ignore users and make a "better" clone of existing competitor for short term bump in engagement. Every huge company did that before sliding downhill.