I think your memory might be failing on this, because we’re about the same age and autosave wasn’t really a common feature in the 90s. MacOS didn’t introduce autosave until OSX Lion in 2010, and Microsoft’s auto-recover (which was their only feature even close to autosave until office365) wasn’t introduced until the 2000s and didn’t work properly until 2007.
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Please link to the CEO’s Q connection. I tried but couldn’t find any relationship besides that time the SEC commissioner compared WSB smooth brains to the Q-morons that stormed the capitol.
I don’t think it has anything to do with laziness. Endless scrolling has been around for a long time and is really easy to implement.
They do this for one reason - because on average, this method costs less in data served to the average user than something like endless scrolling. They serve up the most popular comments to you thinking that is what the majority will want. Then they put a button to load more because only a small percentage actually use it, and that saves them money.
They don’t load the comments in order because they don’t want you to click the button, so making the results of the button inconvenient will detract more people from using it. It’s all about trying to subtly convince you to trust that the comments that they served up originally are the only important ones so that you don’t even bother to click the see more link. Enshitification at its finest.
It happens to me more and more these days as well.