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From a Lufthansa mail titled ”you are eligible for an upgrade"
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
It's worth it if you would hate your current experience I suppose.
But yeah, not worth it at all, in my opinion. If I hated a budget option so badly that paying premium would win out, I'd have done that in the first place.