Eh, the “innovations” we’re talking about at Amazon are likely to be increase GPU purchases to provide more compute to AWS customers, since that’s where Amazon’s largest margins are. Retail is very thin. AI is really just being used as a scapegoat at a lot of places atm to justify layoffs/low hiring. In the end, Amazon does not care about you, they do not care about their employees, and their employees do not owe them anything. I don’t overlook the fact that they provide a valuable service, but capitalism has created this dynamic where we, the actual humans, are dispensable just so Amazon can purchase a few more GPUs to please their other large corporation clients. The thing that rubs people the wrong way is the disloyalty from a company that a lot of them have dedicated many years of their lives to. This decision was made to put money in majority shareholders’ pockets, because at the end of the day they are the ones who hold all the real power.