There’s a reason I put it in quotation marks, it was an example not a part of the sentence

Has enshitification already reached “gaslighting” status where people just use it when it’s not appropriate?

they still know it’s going to have bad optics and be widely controversial

How would they know that? It’s often hard to predict how users will react, sometimes your expectations are wrong.

Apple proposes change

Users vote against it

Apple doesn’t do change

Nothing to see here folks