You’re making the assumption that these are relevant to the overall goal of Amazon

I’d argue that 1 is irrelevant provided the system continued to extract profit at the same or greater margin

Amazon lives and dies by not caring about #2 so that’s constant

#3 is desirable from Jassy and the boards perspective

Seems like exactly what I’d expect from Amazon

> You’re making the assumption that these are relevant to the overall goal of Amazon

not at all! no assumptions made: Their website, technology stack, and SAAS platform is all garbage... yet, they persist in their success to make obscene amounts of money!

It's not like Amazon has been optimizing for high quality engineers to begin with.

I’m of the radical opinion that engineers at Amazon are pretty good, but they’re in a pressure cooker that incentivizes bad work. At minimum, it rarely gives space for people to excel.

Given the business is still growing, even if that’s all they achieve, it’s already a massive win, no?

Precisely, I expect their profits to expand, I was strictly speaking of the claim in the title. No doubt they will continue to expand on their current strategies.