My feel: That person enjoyed how you struggled explaining paragraphs and setting verbal boundaries.

Im fed up just reading about the situation.

Insane, eye-opening read. Thank you

This is the pattern. Acquisition. Cost optimization. Quality decline. Warranty narrowing. Brand equity extraction. And eventually, divestiture.

It happened to your backpack. The same playbook is running right now on your power tools, your boots, your sunglasses, and about a dozen other product categories where a company you trusted quietly got absorbed by a corporation you’ve never heard of.