> A few years ago that would have sounded like giving up
I’m confused by that sentence. Giving up on what exactly?
Leaving a large audience platform was/is like giving up on having a large audience for your stuff.
This reads as slop to me. Added contrast containing no semantic content.
Same with:
> it changed under them
Personal sites were always an option and yet they chose the big platform. I interpret "giving up" in that sense, giving up your preference.