User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-30915002-20201203220155/@comment-1038387-20201203230556

You make the impression that it's greed that drives this, but it's not. Though money is a factor, streamlining processes to save money and time in the long run is the main game. It's not greed to stop something that bleeds money, it's business sense.

As for "read what the people are asking for", they're asking for unicorns and steam engines. There's useful feedback, but the vast majority is not actionable. Chat, for example, would have to be entirely remade for the new software version. The limited use overall (save for a few communities where it's used intensively) does not warrant that investment. Chat does not pay for itself. Even if they were to load it to the brim with ads.