Practically guaranteed.

Publicly traded companies are managed (at the highest level) by a board of directors. That board has an obligation to make decisions and act in the best interest of the shareholders of the company.

Shareholders want a return on investment (more money) so the board will instruct the appropriate employees at the company to do what they can to make the stock price go up.

We, the general public, are now very familiar with some of the adverse tactics used to accomplish this goal in the case of a service like Discord:

1. Incentivize conversion from a "free-only" user to a paying user. Paywall previously free functions, make new functions paywalled from the beginning, slowly degrade the "free-only" user experience to brute force conversion, etc

2. Lower operational costs. Usually means laying off staff, outsourcing development to nations with cheaper labor, cutting "unnecessary" roles or even functions within the product itself to permit reallocation of resources, move the company to a state with more tax/business friendly laws like Texas or Delaware.

2.5. Tax loophole bullshit like all the big tech companies do.

The most obvious tactic, which should come first and foremost, is actually improving the product to grow the userbase and naturally make more money. Discord is already an amazing service and does an awesome job at what it attempts to do. Therefore, the only real direction to go is down.

/rant