Doctorow is popular because his critiques never offer up any systemic solutions but rather place “enshittification” as a bad thing corporations do.

Literally he is constantly saying that there are no personal solutions, only systemic solutions. He even makes fun of people who ask questions like “so what can I do about it?” He’s like, haven’t you been listening? You can do nothing other than organize to build and enforce collective power. I heard him say how important it is that people do not think he is advocating for individual actions of any sort.

I think there are critiques to be made of Cory doctorow but overall he’s a good influence to have around. He sees his role as articulating communism in a way that will be appealing to his constituency, who are mostly lib/center technocrat types.

We are mostly not his target audience. But sometimes I really appreciate his analysis on some technical or legal issue because he knows that shit really well and there’s not a lot of leftists who do.

As to “enshittification” specifically he has been going around introducing the concept by attributing the popularity to how it gives people the opportunity to use bad language in a context they usually wouldn’t. which I find very funny.