First of all, thank you for your response and the transparency. That said, I have to admit your reply was qui…

First of all, thank you for your response and the transparency. That said, I have to admit your reply was quite disheartening, mainly because the points I raised, which you referred to as a "narrative shift" without actually addressing or refuting them, boil down to this from the users' perspective, as I outlined in my previous post: "Some of the user outrage comes from the fact that you used them as a selling point indirectly by pitching with the number of profiles, posts, and paid collects, and big creators' achievements in public communication, while internally stating you have no responsibility toward them because your product is made for developers." In that light, calling this a necessary change or brushing it off with a “startups shift narratives all the time” attitude is deeply concerning. I’m not sure how to say this without sounding unnecessarily confrontational, since my goal is still constructive dialogue, but from this perspective it clearly means that users only mattered up until the point when Lens Protocol or Chain secured roughly $40 million in seed funding. After that, the narrative shifted entirely, and all responsibility for serving user needs was pushed onto the apps. How well this new direction actually works is pretty clear from the numbers, even if sharing Dune dashboards about Lens activity isn’t as popular these days. You can feel it in the overall sentiment, and in the fact that a significant portion of the biggest and most active Lens users and developers from 2023–2024 are now migrated their activity to Farcaster. Not to mention that you're now framing the whole operation like a typical startup, where users should feel fortunate just to participate for free. Yet for three years, the narrative was all about a fully decentralized, user-governed system (LIPs). Users built their decentralized identities with the belief and hope that they were contributing to something genuinely shaped and governed by the community. So were we just being farmed for almost three years with these promises? And I’m not even talking about $LENS or any kind of speculation right now. The users’ dissatisfaction and frustration are easier to understand in this context. They spent nearly three years investing their time and energy to drive activity, content, numbers, transactions, growth here, only to watch the team shift the whole narrative they were building on, and watch their audience slowly but surely drains away.