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They're explanation sounds very nice and innocent, but it still sounds like corporate speak for "we're ruining the Etsy app with a bunch of cheap garbage products and a never ending parade of sponsored items that you have no interest in"...
I really hope that's not the case
This was already the case. I have seen tons of junk on Etsy that is clearly just drop shipped mass manufacured crap from China exactly as you would find on Aliexpress or whatever. Thier "hand made" aspect has been widely underpoliced for years. All they're doing now is finally dropping the facade.
Sometimes I get curious when I see the exact same item sold by a bunch of different sellers and I see how long it takes me to find it on Ali Express, or to find the original product they all stole the pictures from. Etsy has sucked for a long time.