> Man I really hate the idea of "Let's make a thing that works shittier so that people switch to the new thing".
You're conflating sunsetting old services with forced upgrades. Degrading services when preparing for sunsetting the service is a surefire way to convince product managers to bump up migrations in their priority queue. Announcing sunsetting doesn't work. Reaching out directly to stakeholders doesn't work. What works is the urgency of avoiding downtime. The alternative is simply pulling the plug on a fixed date, which is not preferable.
You're conflating sunsetting old services with forced upgrades. Degrading services when preparing for sunsetting the service is a surefire way to convince product managers to bump up migrations in their priority queue. Announcing sunsetting doesn't work. Reaching out directly to stakeholders doesn't work. What works is the urgency of avoiding downtime. The alternative is simply pulling the plug on a fixed date, which is not preferable.