It looks to me like Axios is rushing to grab as much money as they can before shit goes under.
Standard pump and dump.

Look, news aren't going to go away, at least not quality news.
Back in the day, there were local storytellers who were "broadcasting" news to the village.
Then newspapers came. Storytellers* were now writing articles.
Then radio came. Some article writers moved there, others* kept writing. Radio didn't replace newspapers*.
Then television came. Neither newspapers*, nor radio* disappeared.
Internet came afterwards. TV*, radio* and newspapers* didn't go away.
With AI, there will still be someone who needs to capture the information before it would be processed and spit out through a LLM.

*the good ones, at least. The mediocre and shit ones went away, which shouldn't surprise anyone.

Ah, the ubiquitous "just".
A magical word with so much flexibility.

Let's "just" use fusion.
Can't we "just" stop fighting each other?
And so on.

Same argument could be brought up about upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

Germans... they will always try at least a couple times.
See WWI... /sarcasm

Agreed, however...

If you look at top grossing movies, you might think that's the case, however for each of those movies is countered by at least two other productions that flopped, some of them flopped HARD.
Barbie made bank not because it's pandering (spoiler: it IS pandering, big time), but because of the hundreds of millions of kids who wanted to see it, together with their parents, without caring what kind of message is sent. Same reason for Super Mario and Little Mermaid. The Corpos took known and loved emblematic items and turned them into a money making machine, but that only works once or twice per entity. Maybe there will be a successful Barbie II too, but it's not a sustainable IP, unless they change "the message".

I recently re-watched Airplane and Airplane II (which was objectively worse), my wife and me laughed hard.
Man, I miss that kind of movies.
And I can't stop thinking that, if such movie ideas would have floated today, those movies would have NEVER been made. As a matter of fact, I'd wager to say more than half of "classic" movies out there, the ones that achieved "legend" status, would have never been made today.

Rambo II and onwards would like a word with you.

Ah, yes, a botched 900 people e-mail transition from 8 years ago is clearly a prime example of "corporate bad, government good".

The alternative being... nationalize everything and become a much larger North Korea?

+1 insightful.

Ah, yes, because somehow the guv'min is clearly much better and competent than... than... well, anything, really. In any area of your choosing. /sarcasm^2

That would be... very difficult, since we're together 100% of the time.

No kids, but plenty of pets.
Maybe I should point out this is my second marriage (I learned a LOT from the first one).
We are together 100% of the time. Working from home is a blessing.
And yes, plenty of small compromises to go around, but they are all openly discussed and agreed; I'd say the count of compromises is 50/50.

I'm aware this type of relationship is very rare, but I've seen it at my maternal grandparents before. 53 years of blissful marriage, through pretty rough times in part, until one of them sadly passed away.

Yes, legally.
Well, I have to nuance a bit. In my country, you can order alcohol and tobacco online, if you're over 18, of course. ID is not checked (in person or on the website) if you order online. I know of several cases where someone (incidentally, an adult, but, again, there was no online ID check) ordered alcohol online and the package was delivered to their homes, where their child received it from the courier.
Firearm ownership is illegal here, unless you fill a ton of paperwork, and people who have the right to own them are exceedingly rare. But alcohol and tobacco can be very easily ordered online, even through delivery apps.

Um... I was under the impression the "ATF" trifecta can be bought online, as well.

I empathize...
However, the world isn't built around you, or me, or any single human, for that matter.