Both can be true at once. Huge corporations can be exploiting people for their data even while they develop new techniques to make their web applications more appealing and useful. Cookie banners can plague every website and those same websites can be more intuitive to use than ever before.
I would say that the shift has been not just toward prioritizing end users but also towards prioritizing profits. The point is that developer experience is much lower down on the priorities list than it was, because we're now paid enough money that we'll suck it up and do what the business needs rather than doing the thing that's easiest for us.
Which is why I asserted both statements to be true side by side. It was in fact the entire point of my comment. Things are worse overall for the end user as a result of both divergent experiences being simultaneously true.
I would say that the shift has been not just toward prioritizing end users but also towards prioritizing profits. The point is that developer experience is much lower down on the priorities list than it was, because we're now paid enough money that we'll suck it up and do what the business needs rather than doing the thing that's easiest for us.