By and large that’s it. That’s opportunism at its finest: it limits itself with its own greed. There’s only so much you can do that will make you money. And if your ultimate goal is just to make money, well, then your product is…. I don’t wanna say meaningless, but it is ultimately subpar. Because it’s soulless. It tastes like cheap plastic and leaves this weird taste in your mouth.

To end this lengthy post, a quote by Evgeniy Chichivarkin, a Russian businessman, a legendary guy from the early ‘00s seems appropriate:

“All the secrets of motivating people lie on the surface. You have to spend a lot of effort to find a real expert who loves what they do. And then stand back and stay out of the way. It's like when working with an artist - you can't stand behind him and say: add more yellow.
And the second thing is that you have to share a part of the profit. Only you need to calculate in advance and very cleverly how exactly. There is your shared catch, and from it you need to distribute part of it to those who bought the rods, managed the boat, those who will clean the fish, cook it and then remove the bones. Everyone agrees that you, as the owner, should get the biggest share, and if the catch is bad, you should starve, since you organized everything so badly. But you can't determine everyone's share first and then say, “Guys, the catch is too big, a couple of fish's gonna be enough for you". That's gonna be a big mistake.”

HMSTR is a tool for making money for Mr. Gurevich and his inner circle (if he, of course, has one) and nobody else. You’re just a happy casualty of the process.