While obviously true, this misses the point. There are very different ways to go, one can fizzle out after providing a useful service for decades for example, or get acquired for a lot of money by a larger entity, or one can get dissected by the DOJ to serve as a warning to everyone else.

It's a Fight Club quote.

Your points are absolutely true, but I don't think the person you're replying to was necessarily unaware of them.

So I appreciated both your comments, albeit for completely different reasons.

And here's me appreciating you for saying what I was thinking.