It's partly the pervasiveness of that product because it's in fking everything in the US at least. Why is it in BREAD? https://www.thedailymeal.com/1306301/unhealthiest-store-boug...

It's also the crazy amounts: we're accustomed to high levels of sweetness. Like 40g sugar in a can of soda.

It seems like Jira is the worst issue wrangling nightmare, except for all the others. What can replace it today?

My money is on massive overexposure to high fructose corn syrup in the Western diet.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9170474/

Hey it's a revenue stream. I guess it's like selling domain names? Better than more ads maybe? Better than selling your data? Who are we kidding, they'll do all of the above.

The epitome of "sku engineering" is mattresses, to keep consumers from comparison shopping. Retail HATES competition and informed shoppers.