Yeah, that would be users choosing which clients they prefer, but they went a different route. Various nonprofit and investment funds picking particular clients they like, basically, with no effective feedback-loop from users.

I wrote about it, once, under my other (much bigger) nym.

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqq49w6re94mk2ttgv9mx2ttwda6z6ctswpkxjety94nx7u3dvykkwunpde6z6mpev9mxcms7c8sha