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Invariably, someone looks at the numbers and realizes "We could make way more money if we only catered to the top 2% of our customers!"
Unfortunately, opinions and needs of the top 2% of customers != a generally useful product.
Thus, the reason to try and maintain user volume is better product-market feedback to guide development, instead of revenue.
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Invariably, someone looks at the numbers and realizes "We could make way more money if we only catered to the top 2% of our customers!"
Unfortunately, opinions and needs of the top 2% of customers != a generally useful product.
Thus, the reason to try and maintain user volume is better product-market feedback to guide development, instead of revenue.