>>105998401 (OP)they have to show constant growth or their stocks will stop being seen as "growth stocks" and start being seen as "mature", at which point they'll be severely overvalued and face a correction. this is common with tech companies and is why everyone's going all-in on AI: you can show that the AI part of your company is growing, so you've not hit maturity yet and investors should keep throwing money at you.
when the DOJ sued google their internal emails revealed that they intentionally made google search worse so people would have to search more frequently to find what they were looking for, because they have to show continued search growth, but they already more-or-less have a monopoly on search so they couldn't grow any more by finding new users. the only option was to make existing users search more, but if search works correctly you should find exactly what you want on the first search, so they had to break search...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/