Get off your high horse lol.
It's literally called the call me hand in the official Unicode emoji specs. Not everything has to relate to the USA, friend.
That said, feel free to interpret it as the shaka with your friends. No need to foist that on the rest of us.
Being publicly traded inherently means you need to show growth every 3 months or your shares are worthless. Cue the enshittification and squeezing pennies from every revenue stream possible.
That's the sole reason Valve hasn't gone down that path is its status in this regard.
You have lost [crewmember]