It's something I'd recognised before hearing the "enshittification" label: company gains monopolistic power in a market with network effects, then company undoes all the positive policies that allowed it to gain that monopolistic power.
It's a big galaxy. All the different series do not overlap, so there's no issue with reading one before the other.
Ciaphas Cain is the most normie-friendly 40K series, basically Space Blackadder about a commissar driven by enlightened self-interest. I'd start with that, and then try Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn or one of the other more standard 40k series.
While I wouldn't say that is strictly true - Boris Yeltzin famously lost his faith in communism when he visited an average American grocery store and saw what the Party had denied the Russian people - any Westerner who calls themselves a communist does so in wilful contempt of the evidence.
Bugmen don't chimp out.
HRT is not retroactive. Their entire argument for putting children on that road to hell early is that that it's not retroactive. You cannot both argue that boys need to be chemically castrated so that puberty doesn't cause any irreversible changes and that a male athlete's body hasn't gone through any irreversible changes as a consequence of going through male puberty.
The only circumstance in which this should be allowed is for services that inherently require an external service that requires upkeep. A subscription for navigation assistance is fine, a subscription to un-cripple your car's engine should get you hanged.
AKA "Failure to suck China's cock re: Taiwan"?