User choice in the form of multiple tiers would be ideal. I might or might not pay to remove non-creepy ads depending on how they’re presented.

At least there’s a cheap option to remove them. I’ll pay the $3/mo.

As someone who hasn’t yet played it but will, and wants to like it, should I read this? Will it point out negative things I might agree with but would never have noticed otherwise?

fired employees that criticized him on twitter

I hope one of those employees sues him. And asks him publicly to pay their legal fees.

I wonder if it’s because over time it’s using more AI-generated data in its training set, or if these results are true based on an identical static data set.

In private I bet most of these people don’t talk about it at all. They probably don’t actually have strong opinions on the subject one way or the other. They just use the hate to inflame their tool followers to keep themselves in their positions of wealth.