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The author is making a moral argument and presenting it as if it’s a business argument. It’s not. Zynga still made boatloads of money, and employed thousands of people, before the rug got pulled.

The article does not specify good vs bad platforms. Is Apple’s App Store good or bad? Would the author not want to start Epic?

What about building B2B tools for Salesforce, or apps for Shopify?

Platform Risk is a form of risk that can be mitigated. Building on platforms is itself a mitigation for distribution risk.