Ask HN: Hey Drew, why is Dropbox becoming so bad?

When you visit the Dropbox iOS app's PDF viewer there's a bright blue Open button. It shows "Open with... Adobe Acrobat Reader, Add Text or Signature" - it's an affiliate revenue scheme dark pattern that sends you down a totally bad path. It caught my mom today, a Pro subscriber and a doctor, and she was just trying to look at health articles with her patients. Not "sign up for an Adobe account?" as she worriedly said on the phone today. It's rough. The app is full of crap like this, it's not the first time it's caught my mom - an educated person! There was smart sync (different than "selective sync") being toggled on by default on new installs, which was horrible. Files that don't open! Bad engineering, bad product design. There are the blocking notifications and prompts. The defaulting to show the Dropbox app instead of Finder. That's just in the last two months. I asked Dropbox CS people to "disable product m