'The acquisition won't change anything, they promised' — it always does

'The acquisition won't change anything, they promised' — it always does
Heard this week, unconfirmed but consistent: another beloved host got acquired and the comms email said 'nothing changes.' Word is the changes are just lagged 12 to 18 months — the integration playbook is support consolidation first, then pricing alignment, then quiet feature deprecation. A source who's lived through three of these tells us the day-one promise is technically true and strategically meaningless. The advice to 'wait and see, they said it's fine' ignores a pattern with a clock on it.
Watch this: the moment the founder's name leaves the about page, the roadmap belongs to the buyer.