But then I realized that everything you rely on is proprietary software which puts profit over user experience and therefore breaks working UX to get even more profit (something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29454289). Consider using free software alternatives instead [edit:] whenever you can.
Thanks, but I'm not sure that's either true or a connection that is always entirely valid. For starters, my use cases are often driven by my clients. I don't necessarily have the choice to "not use Google Analytics" - all my clients do, as does the sector I work in.
Secondly, Wordpress - open source.
Thirdly - sadly it's the case that very often commercial options are better than O/S ones. Trello is (was) a good example. There just isn't a good O/S tool to replace it. Similarly, in my long experience working with projects, the O/S offerings are fairly poor, often not very well maintained and lacking in core features.
I know I'm basically asking for gold here: "I want all the features but not too many / all the time" - but the rate of change just seems to have increased to such a huge extent recently and I'm not sure users are ever really at the centre of these changes.
But then I realized that everything you rely on is proprietary software which puts profit over user experience and therefore breaks working UX to get even more profit (something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29454289). Consider using free software alternatives instead [edit:] whenever you can.